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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Good-bye!" was all that Jared Long said, as he darted from the side of his gallant friend and vanished. Professor Grimcke took a few seconds to refill his magazine, when up went his Winchester again and the furious discharges seemed to be more rapid than before.
Grimcke was relieved to hear this, and had there been only the two natives to confront, he would have been disturbed by no misgiving, but there were signs that the third one down the stream was preparing to do his part in the treacherous business.
The white men were unacquainted with the etiquette prevailing in this barbaric court, but there are certain ceremonies which are received as expressive of courtesy and obeisance the world over. Ziffak gave no instructions; but, placing himself at the side of Professor Grimcke on the left, he surveyed his friends with much curiosity, as if waiting to see how they would conduct themselves.
He stood glaring like a lion at the keepers who are torturing his mate to death, while he is barred within the cage and cannot rush to her help. Then, wheeling about, he broke into a run straight for his home, whence came the shots that left no doubt that Professor Grimcke, Jared Long, and perchance their servants were fighting for their lives.
From what the reader has been told, it will be seen that the defenders were not far off in their conjectures. But, when they came to speculate upon the part that the head chieftain was likely to take, affecting Grimcke and Long, they were all at sea.
Then Grimcke stepped out from the wall to gain a view of the opening which answered for a door. A rustling there told him a crowd were gathering, but they had taken warning just in time to avoid a third shot. Then he slipped a couple more cartridges from his belt into the magazine, so as to keep it full, and awaited the next step in this extraordinary business.
When Professor Ernest Grimcke realized that his desperate flight from the besieged building had been attended with complete success, and that he was standing among the dense shadows of the forest, with no enemy near, he devoutly uncovered his head, and, looking upward, uttered his fervent thanks to heaven for its amazing mercy.
Out of the door he went as if shot from the throat of a columbiad, with a procession of sinewy-limbed warriors at his heels. All ran as fast as they could, though none were his equal in fleetness. It need hardly be said that Ziffak took mighty good care that he did not pursue the course of Professor Grimcke, and presumably that of his companion who preceded him.
It was then that Ariel raised her eyes, and turned them toward the trio, gazing at no one in particular for she knew her parent was closely studying her but seeming to fix them upon some one miles behind them. Grimcke, Long and Ashman again bowed their heads almost to the ground, and, feeling that the interview was over, began withdrawing.
She parted her lips to make a suitable reply, when a startled expression came upon her lovely countenance and she whispered: "They must have followed us through the woods." "What do you mean?" he asked, grasping his rifle. "I hear some one moving behind us." "It is a wild animal " He checked himself, for, to his unspeakable amazement, Professor Grimcke at that instant stepped to view.
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