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Updated: May 2, 2025
Then the lines of warriors sprang up as a wave springs, and their crests were like foam upon the wave. As a wave that swells to break they rose suddenly, like a breaking wave they poured down the slope. In front of them was the Slaughterer, holding Groan-Maker aloft, and oh! his feet were swift. So swift were his feet that, strive as they would, he outran them by the quarter of a spear's throw.
He rose, determinedly, shaking off Spear's detaining arm. In the doorway stood Dr. Jones. Again came the tiny cry. "It's a boy," said the medico, and held out his hand. But Adrian caught him by the shoulders. "My wife?" he asked. "How is she? Is there any " "Danger? No, it's over," said the doctor. "Sit down and calm yourself." Adrian relaxed a trifle. Finally his set face softened; he laughed.
'Oh help me, Sir Lavaine, said he, 'to get this spear's head out of my side, for it is killing me. But Sir Lavaine feared to touch it, lest Sir Lancelot should bleed to death. 'I charge you, said Sir Lancelot, 'if you love me draw out the head, so Sir Lavaine drew it out.
The first work of our friends after they had made certain that the Africans had really retreated, was to attend to Tom's wound and the bruise Randolph Rover had received from the stone. Fortunately neither man nor boy was seriously hurt, although Tom carries the mark of the spear's thrust to this day. "But I don't care," said Tom.
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