CHAPTER 8READY FOR INVASION
“Well, the thing to do is to push on,” decided Nick Carter briskly, as Jai Singh handed back the soapstone ear to him. “We’ll keep this pretty relic as a sort of cue for what we are to do when we get to the Land of Golden Scarab. Are we on the right road to that interesting place?”
“Straight up this river till we get to where it pours out of the sacred rocks among the Himalayas,” replied Jai Singh.
“It is on the borders of Nepal, isn’t it?” asked Chick.
“Not far from there,” returned Jai Singh. “It would be well to take up the anchor and go on.”
“Aren’t we going to have another mix-up with that bunch of coffee-colored robbers over there?” grumbled Patsy.
“They have gone away,” Jai Singh told him gravely. “We may meet them when we get to the city beyond the
