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Kathlyn heard the shouts from behind, but she could not understand

whether these arnings or advice Could they overtake her before

she was flung off? She tried to recall the "elephant talk" Ahht her in the old days at the farm, but just now she was too dazed

At the end of an hour all sounds froe her with the knowledge that friends were near

Rajah th she carass, a

dead and brittle last year's growth She sao natives in the act of

kicking out a dung fire Rajah headed directly toward the in the line of path he had chosen This rare and

unexpected freedoiant fern he used to eat in the days when he was free and wild in

Ceylon

Kathlyn called out to the men, but they turned and fled in terror To

them Rajah was amuck The elephant passed the fire so closely that the

wind of his passing stirred the fire into life again; and this tirass A few hundred yards beyond

Kathlyn turned to see the fla a whiff of the acrid s rapidity and stopped only when it reached the bed

of a trickling streareat pall of s in the rear; blotted out

hope, for Bruce could never pick up the trail now

Kathlyn's eyes were feverishly dry and bright It was only a matter of

time when the hoould slip down the brute's side She prayed that