The Child has saved the others, or most of them, but us it has abandoned.

Now what will you do?
Kill yourself, or if that does not please you, suffer me to kill you?
Or shoot on until you must surrender ?" "I have nothing to shoot with any more," I answered.

"But if we surrender, what will happen to us ?" "We shall be taken to Simba's town and there sacrificed to the devil Jana--I have not time to tell you how.

Therefore I propose to kill myself." "Then I think you are foolish, Marut, since once we are dead, we are dead; but while we are alive it is always possible that we may escape from Jana.

If the worst comes to the worst I have a pistol with two bullets in it, one for you and one for me." "The wisdom of the Child is in you," he replied.