Glancing up again, to my surprise I saw the Masai's spear lying on the ground, while the man himself was staggering about with both hands to his head.

Suddenly I saw a puff of smoke proceeding apparently from Flossie, and the man fell down headlong.

Then I remembered the Derringer pistol she carried, and saw that she had fired both barrels of it at him, thereby saving her life.

In another instant she had made an effort, and assisted by the nurse, who was lying on the top, had scrambled over the wall, and I knew that she was, comparatively speaking, safe.
All this takes time to tell, but I do not suppose that it took more than fifteen seconds to enact.

I soon got the magazine of the repeater filled again with cartridges, and once more opened fire, not on the seething black mass which was gathering at the end of the kraal, but on fugitives who bethought them to climb the wall.