The deer were in a panic of terror, and a great stag ran for a few moments beside the boys, not noticing them, or, in his fear of greater evil, having no fear of human beings who were involved in the same danger.

Three or four buffaloes, too, presently joined the frightened herd of game, one, a great bull running with head down and blowing steam from his nostrils.
Paul suddenly sank to his knees and gasped: "I can't go on! Let me stay here and you save yourself, Henry!" Henry looked back at the great fiery wall that swept over the ground, roaring like a storm.

It was very near now and the smoke almost blinded him.

A boy with a spirit less stanch than his might well have fled in a panic, leaving his companion to his death.

But the nearer the danger came the more resolute Henry grew.