How was it possible that they--two men and a woman--could capture this fortified camp, filled as it was with scores of the most wicked desperadoes in Africa?
How was it possible even that they could obtain access to it?
Viewed from far off, the thing had seemed small--to be done somehow.

But now! And yet they must do something, or all their labour would be in vain, and the poor girl they came to rescue must be handed over to her shameful fate, or, if she chose it in preference and could compass the deed, to self-murder.
"How on earth!" said Leonard aloud, then added, "Well, Otter, I can tell you one thing.

I have come a long way on this business, and I am not going to turn my back to it now.

I have never yet turned my back on a venture and I will not begin with this, though I dare say that my death lies in it." "It is all in the hand of to-morrow," answered Otter; "but it is time that we made a plan, for the night draws on.

Now, Baas, here is a thick tree shaded by other trees.