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It looked as though the mass of the dead slug were as large as the total bulk of the termite ruler; but not until the meal was nearly gone did the voracious feeding stop. The three workers that had spread the banquet before their monarch, left the chamber.
He, too, brought down his three-foot length of bar with all the force he could muster, the sight of that swollen, hideous head atop the withered remnants of termite body lending power to his muscles.
In addition, there were several each of two forms of termite soldier such as they had not seen before, standing rigidly at attention about the place. At the door, of course, were the two creatures with the enormous mandibles that had escorted the pigmy men to the larder. But these others were as different as though they belonged to a different race.
No doubt, to his own mind, he had placed them near one of the termite highways. But his ideas of distance were now so radically different from theirs that Dennis, at least, was unable to see a tunnel opening anywhere. He spoke his thoughts to Jim. "There must be a tunnel opening somewhere very near us," he concluded. "But I Good heavens!"
That destiny which killed him by means of me has it no human faces? "Kings!" said Termite. "The big people!" said the man whom they had snared, the close-cropped German prisoner, the man with the convict's hexagonal face, he who was greenish from top to toe.
"All the same, isn't it chaps like you that prevented France from being prepared?" "There's not enough chaps like me to prevent anything; and if there'd been more, there wouldn't have been any war." "It's not to us, it's to the Boches and the others that you must say that." "It's to all the world," said Termite; "that's why I'm an internationalist."
Denny got to his feet almost before he had landed; but between him and the exit was the bulk of the termite that had felled him, and in the doorway the guard had dropped the body it was slashing to bits, and had recommenced its slashing jaw movements. "Jim! For God's sake...." shrieked the doomed man. Beside himself, he managed to hurdle clear over the massive insect between him and the doorway.
The last is often known under the term of white ants, in which we count the deadly termite, the yellow corslet termite, the termite that shuns the light, the biter, the destroyer " "And those that constructed this ant-hill?" asked Dick Sand. "They are the martial ants," replied Cousin Benedict, who pronounced this word as if it had been the Macedonians, or some other ancient people brave in war.
The curved claws of the unheeding anteater fitted around the trunk and the strong prehensile tail flattened against the bark, so that the creature seemed to put forth no more exertion than if walking along a fallen log. Now and then it stopped and daintily picked at a bit of termite nest. With such side-shows it was sometimes difficult to concentrate on the Attas.
"Good!" said Hercules; "that proves the river is there!" "Yes," replied Dick Sand, "and it will carry us to the coast. Be reassured, then, Mrs. Weldon; the water cannot reach you, nor little Jack, nor Nan, nor Mr. Benedict." Mrs. Weldon did not reply. As to the cousin, he slept like a veritable termite.
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