[Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookNada the Lily CHAPTER XII 4/22
Now she saw Umslopogaas and turned roaring, and clawed at him, tearing his breast and arms.
Then, as he lay, he heard a mighty howling, and, behold! grey wolves and black leaped upon the lioness and rent and worried her till she fell and was torn to pieces by them.
After this the senses of Umslopogaas left him again, and the light went out of his eyes so that he was as one dead. At length his mind came back to him, and with it his memory, and he remembered the lioness and looked up to find her.
But he did not find her, and he saw that he lay in a cave upon a bed of grass, while all about him were the skins of beasts, and at his side was a pot filled with water.
He put out his hand and, taking the pot, drank of the water, and then he saw that his arm was wasted as with sickness, and that his breast was thick with scars scarcely skinned over. Now while he lay and wondered, the mouth of the cave was darkened, and through it entered that same lad who had done battle with the lioness and been overthrown by her, bearing a dead buck upon his shoulders.
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