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"What's the idea, Vic," asked the man, "I thought you were through with all this."
"I am, Barney," she replied, "or will be after today, but I just couldn't go away without satisfying my
curiosity. I want to know that there is no cave here in which a man might be buried."
She dismounted and started to climb the rugged escarpment. Barney was amazed at the agility and
strength of the slender girl. It kept him puffing to remain near her in her rapid ascent.
At last she stopped suddenly upon a narrow ledge. When Barney reached her side he saw that she was
very white, and he paled himself when he saw what her eyes rested upon. The earthquake had dislodged
a great boulder that for ages evidently had formed a part of the face of the cliff. Now it had tilted outward
a half dozen feet, revealing behind it the mouth of a gloomy cavern.
Barney took Victoria's hand. It was very cold and trembled a little.
"Come," he said, "this has gone far enough, Vic. You'll be sick again if you keep it up. Come back to the
horses -- we've seen all we want to see."
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She shook her head.
"Not until I have searched that cave," she said, almost defiantly, and Barney knew that she would have
her way.
Together they entered the forbidding grotto, Barney in advance, striking matches with one hand while he
clung to his cocked rifle with the other; but there was nothing there that longer had the power to injure.
In a far corner the feeble rays of the match lighted something that brought Barney to a sudden halt. He
tried to turn the girl back as though there was nothing more to be seen, but she had seen too and pressed
forward. She made her brother light another match, and there before them lay the crumbling skeleton of a
large man. By its side rested a broken, stone-tipped spear, and there was a stone knife and a stone ax as
well.
"Look!" whispered the girl, pointing to something that lay just beyond the skeleton.
Barney raised the match he held until its feeble flame carried to that other object -- the grinning skull of a
great cat, its upper jaw armed with two mighty, eighteen-inch, curved fangs.
"Oo, the killer of men and of mammals," whispered Victoria Custer, in an awed voice, "and Nu, the son
of Nu, who killed him for his Nat-ul -- for me!"
Table of Contents
NU OF THE NIOCENE
THE EARTHQUAKE
NU THE SLEEPER AWAKES
THE MYSTERIOUS HUNTER
THE WATCHER
NU AND THE LION
VICTORIA OBEYS THE CALL
CAPTURED BY ARABS
NU GOES TO FIND NAT-UL
ON THE TRAIL
THE ABDUCTION
THE CAVE MAN FINDS HIS MATE
INTO THE JUNGLE
AGAIN A WORLD UPHEAVAL
BACK TO THE STONE AGE
THE GREAT CAVE-BEAR
THE BOAT BUILDERS
NU'S FIRST VOYAGE
THE ANTHROPOID APES
THE BEAST-FIRES
BOUND TO THE STAKE
THE FIGHT
GRON'S REVENGE
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THE AUROCHS
TUR'S DECEPTION
NAT-UL IS HEART-BROKEN
I HAVE COME TO SAVE YOU
WHAT THE CAVE REVEALED
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