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Updated: May 9, 2025
He swung the stick with such vigor that he fairly cleared a circle for himself. The natives paused, howling and shrieking, before the final rush. An inspiration came to Deltos. He tore his cap from his head and his net from his face. "Look!" he screamed, above the uproar. "I am a man, like yourselves! Do not kill!" Next second he froze in his tracks.
"What!" shouted Somat, horrified. "Why, of course! Make slaves of them! What else?" Despite all that Somat and his two backers could say, the other nine men swiftly agreed upon the thing Deltos had proposed. Somat went so far as to declare that he would warn Rolla; but he was instantly given to understand that any such move would be disastrous to himself.
And they were two hundred to nine! In half a minute the first of the invaders was down, his head crushed by a mattock in the hands of a bee-tormented native. In a single minute all were gone but two; and a moment later, Deltos alone, because he had chanced to secure a long club, was alive of all that crew. For a minute he kept them off by sheer strength.
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