With a low growl the leopard fell forward, dead; but they could hear an animal advancing rapidly, with fierce grunts; though from what direction it was impossible to tell.
"It must be the mate," said Compton, with an anxious look at Venning.

"How do you feel ?" "I'm all right now;" and he passed his hand over his forehead.

"I can help you this time.

If it is the mate, it will go first to its dead." "Then we'd better crouch down by that tree." They knelt side by side a little way off, with their rifles ready; but, though the noise made by the advancing animal grew louder, they could see no movement whatever.
Then an extraordinary thing occurred.

A bough above shook heavily, and a large flattened body shot down from one branch to another, tail, neck, and legs at the full stretch, alighting easily on the rounded branch.