The boat was only ten yards from the shore! Now the film passed away from his eyes, and his dazed brain cleared.

He sprang up to his full height, reckless of his own life, and shouted in a voice that was heard far over the yellow waters: "Keep off! Keep off, for your lives! It is a renegade who is calling you into an ambush! Keep off! Keep off!" Paul saw a sudden confusion on the boat, a running to and fro of people, and a bucking of the sweeps.

Then he heard a spatter of rifle shots, all this passing in an instant, and the next moment he felt a heavy concussion.

Fire flashed before his eyes, and he sank away into a darkness that quickly engulfed him.
When Paul came back to himself he was lying among the trees where he had fallen, and his head ached violently.

He started to put up his hand to soothe it, but the hand would not move, and then he realized that both hands were bound to his side.