The place was a whirlwind of flame.

The smell of kerosene was almost overpowering.

The wild yell of the leopard rose above the strange, half-human gibbering of the monkeys and the hoarse, bass calling of another voice, at the sound of which Lenora and even Quest shuddered.

Then, as they came, breathless, to a standstill, they saw a strange thing.

One side of the hut fell in, and almost immediately the leopard with a mighty spring, leapt from the place and ran howling into the undergrowth.