I could not screw an inch more speed out of my legs, and I kept on, with the brute gaining on me at every stride.

He was within a foot of me, and I had not heard a shot fired, and not a soul had come to the rescue.

The sudden thought struck me that my brother could not possibly overtake the elephant at the pace at which we were going, and I immediately doubled short to my left into the open plain, and back towards the guns.

The rogue overshot me.

I met my brother close to his tail, which position he had with difficulty maintained; but he could not get a shot, and the elephant turned into the jungle, and disappeared just as I escaped him by a sharp turn.