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Updated: June 20, 2025
Two of the bows twanged simultaneously, but the third that of Maikar was pulled with such vigour that it broke with a crash that would have awakened the sleepiest of wild boars, had there been nothing else to arouse him. As it was, other things helped to quicken his sensibilities. Bladud's unfailing arrow went indeed straight for the heart, but a strong rib caught and checked its progress.
He dropped again from the outer end of the bough he had reached, and when the bear rose once more to its feet, it found a foe on either side of it. "Don't shoot together," panted Maikar, for all this violent action was beginning to tell on him. "Do you shoot first." This was said while the bear was in a state of indecision. The captain obeyed and put another arrow in its neck.
"Arkal," said the prince, turning to the captain, "I will leave you in charge here, and start off by the first light to-morrow morning. See that poor Konar is well cared for. Maikar, you will accompany me, and I suppose, Dromas, that you also will go." "Of course," said Dromas, with a meaning smile so full of meaning, indeed, as to be quite beyond interpretation.
Unable to restrain himself, little Maikar sprang up with the obvious intention of rushing at his friend and seizing his hand, but the prince stepped back, shut the door against him, and, in another moment, was gone. An hour later Beniah the Hebrew, who had been obliged to postpone for a time his journey to the North, was startled by hearing footsteps approaching his hut in the dell.
"I have heard rumours about robbers lurking somewhere hereabouts hence my coming out alone to scout the country round, little dreaming that I should find the men of King Hudibras so near." "If robbers are said to be hereabouts," broke in Maikar at this point, "I can tell you where to find them, I think, for I saw a band of men in the hollow just beyond this pass."
Those who could not, were encouraged to make the attempt with planks and oars to aid them. As for Bladud, he busied himself like the captain in giving heart to the non-swimmers and showing them how best to use their floats. The last of the men to leave was little Maikar. He stood at the bow with his arms crossed on his chest and a look of melancholy interest on his countenance.
"He presents his back to us in a careless way, which he would hardly do if he knew that two crack bowmen were a hundred yards astern of him." "Shall I shoot him?" whispered Maikar, preparing his weapons. "He may be a friend," returned the captain. "But, see! yonder comes what interests him so much. Look!"
What detains you?" But Bladud did not answer to the call. A stone from the enemy had fallen on his defenceless head and knocked him down insensible. Four of the men now raised him up. As they did so, one of the men the small seaman, Maikar was found underneath him in a state of semi-consciousness. While they carried Bladud aft, the little sailor began to gasp and sneeze.
"True," responded the other, with a sigh of disappointment, "but we shan't see the end of it, for the boy will be over the ridge and out of sight before he is caught." Maikar was right. Even while he spoke the youthful savage gained the summit, where his slim, agile figure was clearly depicted against the sky.
"But some may have been swept round the next point," suggested Maikar eagerly, commencing to run forward as he spoke. Bladud followed at once, and so did the captain, but it was evident that he regarded any further effort as useless.
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