Elfreda put out the flames and assisted Hippy to his feet.
"Go in and fight!" urged J.Elfreda.

"They're getting the best of us." At that instant, Tom Gray, turning his head to see how it fared with the girls, was hit on the head by Peg Tatem's club and knocked unconscious.
As it proved later, the blow was a light one and Tom was not seriously hurt.
The foreman, uttering an exultant yell, aimed a kick at Tom's head with his peg leg.
Grace Harlowe hurled her club at the foreman's head, but missed the mark.
_Bang!_ A bullet hit Peg's wooden leg, and the leg went out from under its owner like magic.

Peg landed on the ground but he was up in an instant, raging and springing for Tom.

A second bullet hit the wooden leg and split it.
The Overlanders were amazed.
"Who shot ?" cried Anne.
"Don't know," panted Elfreda as she and Hippy charged two jacks who were trying to reach Emma.
Peg, frantic with rage, turned his attention to the others of the party, apparently believing that one of them had fired the shots.

He raised his club to strike Grace who was bending over Tom.
_Bang!_ The club dropped from Peg's hand, and the arm fell to his side with a bullet hole through it.
[Illustration: The Club Dropped from Peg's Hand.] "I'm hit! Kill 'em!" he screamed.