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And in that moment John Smith lost his faith in the friendship Powhatan had sworn to him, and he drew his sword, ready to pierce the first oncomer. Then he looked again ... and hastily thrust his sword back into its scabbard, shouting to his comrades who had also drawn their blades, "Hold!" For there before him, the first of the dancers who had run out of the forest, advanced Pocahontas!
Seeking a solution by measures not violent, he had been given sore spears, whereon his finger tightened at the trigger, and he was a wound automaton; fixed, stern, a fate on feet, bearing down upon the chief in the shelter of the rock. The brandished club was no stop; no more did the skirmishing support of the clan bring pause to the oncomer.
The priest dropped flat to the ground and Turk plunged over his body, wildly clutching for the prostrate man as he went. With the cunning of a fox, the priest, on realizing that he could not avoid a personal conflict, had looked about for means to end the pursuit effectually. Retarded in his progress by the tired, trembling girl, he saw that a stand against the oncomer was unavoidable.
Dorothy went still further back into the history of her country, and gave a faint imitation of an Indian war-whoop, to let the oncomer know she was welcome, and presently Katherine burst impetuously through the dense undergrowth. "So here you are, Miss Laziness," she cried. "Here I am, Miss Energy, or shall I call you Miss-applied Energy?
At a sharp turn he came suddenly upon a cleared space shoring along the water's edge, lit by a blazing camp-fire. Within the circle of the glow she stood, a spent, panting figure, half supported by two men. A hunting-dog dashed forward, menacing the oncomer with stiffened back and bared teeth. The man strode into the group and said with quiet courtesy: "Good evening, gentlemen.
Meeting a man on horseback, and perceiving that the way was not wide enough for both himself and the oncomer, the sagacious animal deliberately backed his huge body into the chaparral so as to clear the way, and then trumpeted as if to signal the horseman that the path was free. The emotions as well as the intelligence of elephants are singularly like those of human kind.
Whoever the oncomer might prove to be, he was losing no time, and he was yet some twenty yards or more away from the statue itself separated from Sylvia by about the same width of water when she recognized, with a sigh of relief, the somewhat cumbrous form and grampus-like puffing of Robert Fenley.
The next moment he dealt Farr a swift jab in the ribs with his elbow. "Take a good look at this man coming," he mumbled. The oncomer was close upon them, and in spite of the dusk Farr's sharp gaze took him all in. In garb and mien he was a fine type of the American gentleman who is marked by a touch of the old school.
Still keeping it in his field of vision he spoke quietly: "There's an airplane headed this way. Step under cover, please." The girl moved up under the trees beside him and unslung her glasses. Presently she also picked up the oncomer. "Boche, Kay?" "I don't know. A monoplane. A Boche chaser, I think. Yes.... Do you see the cross? What insolence! What characteristic contempt for a weaker people!
No longer did the strongly-built Bordj seem to Domini like a fort threatening the oncomer, but like a stalwart host welcoming him, a host who kept open house in this treeless desolation that yet had, for her, no feature that was desolate. It was earth-coloured, built of stone, and had in the middle of the facade that faced them an immense hospitable doorway with a white arch above it.
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