85/106 Within a minute they were spread fan-wise between us and the Greeks, making a screen we could not shoot through. "Get round the wings!" But what was the use? I climbed on an ant-hill. "They are headed southward! They've got their boys together, and have abandoned the cattle! They're off with their tent and belongings due south!" "The cowards!" swore Brown, with such disappointment that Will and I laughed. "I've a long job on my hands! I'll have revenge on 'em if it takes the rest o' my life! I'll follow 'em to hell-and-gone!" "Meanwhile," I said, still standing on the ant-hill, "the Masai are following the cattle! They're smoking this way in two single columns of about twenty spears in each. |