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Part Four | Hugh Lofting | |
VII Hawk's-Head Mountain |
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"None, Doctor. I climbed to every peak and pinnacle I could see. I searched every hollow and cleft. But not one place could I find where men might be hidden." "And Polynesia," asked the Doctor, "did you see nothing that might put us on the right track?" "Not a thing, Doctor--But I have a plan." "Oh good!" cried John Dolittle, full of hope renewed. "What is it? Let's hear it." "You still have that beetle with you," she asked--" the Biz-biz, or whatever it is you call the wretched insect?" "Yes," said the Doctor, producing the glass-topped box from his pocket, "here it is." "All right. Now listen," said she. "If what you have supposed is true--that is, that Long Arrow had been trapped inside the mountain by falling rock, he probably found that beetle inside the cave--perhaps many other different beetles too, eh? He wouldn't have been likely to take the Biz-biz in with him, would he?--He was hunting plants, you say, not beetles. Isn't that right?" "Yes," said the Doctor, "that's probably so." "Very well. It is fair to suppose then that the beetle's home, or his hole, is in that place--the part of the mountain where Long Arrow and his party are imprisoned, isn't it?" "Quite, quite." |
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