I remembered that I was not yet twenty.

My first care was to kneel there among the bracken and give thanks to my Maker, who in very truth had shown me 'His goodness in the land of the living.' After a little I went back to the edge of the cliff.

There where the road came out of the bush was the body of Henriques, lying sprawled on the sand, with two dismounted riders looking hard at it.

I gave a great shout, for in the men I recognized Aitken and the schoolmaster Wardlaw..