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Updated: April 30, 2025
There was the sound of feet scrambling down the path, and the frightened woman perceived the dim outlines of several approaching men. She gave one scream, and Hawley released his grip on her arms to grasp her throat. She jerked away, half-stumbling backward over a rock. The revolver, carried concealed in her dress, was in her hand.
"Horrible!" exclaimed Grace, half-stumbling over the tent-ropes that entangled the ground. "We must get out of this." It was not easy to turn about, so dense was the crowd. Scarcely had they accomplished the manoeuver when Grace exclaimed below her breath, "There he is!" Sure enough, Robert Clinton stood at the narrowest point of their way.
All sounds of battle were gone, but the traces of the encounter had not disappeared. As we followed the route leading to the field, I turned from the beaten track and rode among the trees. Ascending a slight acclivity, I found my horse half-stumbling over some object between his feet. Looking down, I discovered a human skull, partly covered by the luxuriant grass.
He must get there and wake the Border; then the world might look after itself. As he ran, half-stumbling, along the stony hillside he was hard at work recounting to himself the frontier defences. The Forza and Khautmi garrisons might hold the pass for an hour if they could be summoned. It meant annihilation, but that was in the bargain.
With a half-running, half-stumbling gait he withdrew to a corner of the room and furtively watched the two Madagascans. There came the sound of a gong. A panel slid back, and into the room there majestically swept a Chinaman of pure Mongolian type. He was gorgeously clad in flowing silks and wore the princely cap with a button. At a glance his piercing eye took in every detail of the room.
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