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They cringed away from him fearfully. In the middle of the next afternoon they couched the camels in thelengthening shadow of a small volcanic hillock and fed them on thefodder they had cut on the riverbank. The work went swiftly, andRyder stood by, counting each one and making notations in his littlered book. Swiftly the gunners unloaded the Nordenfeltmachine-guns from the pack-camels and staggered with them to

A few more shells screeched high overhead or burstineffectually into the sandbanks of the screening island, then thegunners gave up and silence descended. Perchance Rufaar and I may throw you some scraps from thefeast. It took placeon the bank of the Shiki River. Her body was as light as that of acaptured bird.