by John Blaine
Tony Briotti smiled at the boys. “Howard has a good idea. We’re sailing in about two weeks, and we can take you and your new plane with us. You can get one in that time, I’m sure. We’re off to a place called Banaue, pronounced Ban- ow-ee .”
Rick had no idea where that was. He said so.
“It’s in the northern part of theislandofLuzon , in thePhilippines ,”Shannon told them. “It’s the home of the Ifugaos, primitive people who were head-hunters not so long ago.”
Even as he spoke, an Ifugao woman, clad in a red skirt decorated with yellow yarn balls, was stirring up a fire over which a clay rice bowl bubbled. The woman couldn’t know that a few feet beyond, in a secret place hidden for centuries, lay an object which would plunge four Americans into terrible danger, a story to be told in the next book of Rick’s adventures: THE GOLDEN SKULL
THE END
STAIRWAY TO DANGER
A RICK BRANT SCIENCE-ADVENTURE STORY, No. 9
BY JOHN BLAINE
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