Through it the men carried their supplies on their
backs, transferring everything to improvised sleds, a hundred pounds
to a man.
While this was being done, Rolla hurried east and located Cunora.
The girl was in a pitiful condition from lack of proper food, and
comparative confinement and constant strain. But during Rolla's
absence she had seen none of the bees.
"What are you going to do now?" she asked Rolla, after the explorer
had told her story.
Rolla shrugged her shoulders indifferently. "These gods," she
declared with sublime confidence, "can do no wrong! Whatever they
propose must be for the best! I have done my part; now it is all in
the hands of the Flowing Blossom!"
Not until they reached the head of the valley which had been her
home did Rolla ask Somat as to the plan. He answered:
"Ye and the other woman shall stay here with me, on this hill." He
produced a telescope. "We will watch with this eye-tube. The other
nine men will go ahead and do the work.
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