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Updated: June 14, 2025
The best I could do was to remain till the very last, having to deal with a number of persistent louts who all but suffocated me, at that. But I managed to empty my slinger into some of them and to topple the rest. I was mainly angry that Klow had not showed himself. By the time I had reached the seashore, most of my men were in their boats.
"Mein baas! mein baas! da klow! spoor ob da groot olifant!" There was no danger of mistaking the spoor of the elephant for that of any other creature. There, sure enough, were the great round tracks full twenty-four inches in length, and nearly as wide deeply imprinted in the mud by the enormous weight of the animal's body. Each formed an immense hole, large enough to have set a gatepost in.
"Strokor," he whispered, his face alive with excitement, "thou art a brave lad, and didst save my life. Now, know you that a party of the men of Klow have secreted themselves under the stairway behind the emperor's throne. They have killed the guards, and will of a certainty kill the emperor, too!" "'Twould serve the dolt right," I replied, for I really cared but little.
I gave orders to show no great amount of resistance; and thus, the louts reached Vlama in high feather, confident that the game was theirs. I stood at the door of the palace as Klow himself rolled up to the edge of the parade-ground. My men, obeying orders, had given way to him; his crews swarmed the space behind and on all sides of him, while my own bullies were all about and behind the palace.
"Mein baas! mein baas! da klow! spoor ob da groot olifant!" There was no danger of mistaking the spoor of the elephant for that of any other creature. There, sure enough, were the great round tracks full twenty-four inches in length, and nearly as wide deeply imprinted in the mud by the enormous weight of the animal's body. Each formed an immense hole, large enough to have set a gate-post in.
My men and Klow's alike struggled back to see what were amiss. I handed Klow an ax. "Throw away thine own, scabbard and all," I told him. "It is useless, for 'tis made of iron. Ours, and all our tools of war, are formed of an alloy which is immune from the magic." He took the ax in wonderment.
"Da klow! da klow!" A stranger would have fancied Swartboy in a fit, but Von Bloom knew that by "Da klow! da klow!" the Bushman meant "The elephant! the elephant!" and therefore looked in the direction in which Swartboy was pointing. Sure enough, upon the western plain, looming up against the yellow sky, was a dark mass, that upon examination presented the outlines of an elephant.
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