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HEN Holton and Rosalie had followed the trail broken by the wounded teeheemen for a mile, they paused to allow the girl to fasten the leather lacing of one of her sandals.

Holton watched her as she stooped on one knee. When he raised his glance again to the surrounding vegetation, he uttered an exclamation of astonishment and brought his rifle to his shoulder. At the report of the weapon, Rosalie Sharon rose to her feet and saw a dog-faced warrior fall in the thicket before her. Another and another went down before the unerring aim of Holton.

The thicket surrounding the two was swarming with the savages. Holton fired until a rush of some hundred of the dog-faced men overwhelmed him and bore him, with his gun clubbed, to the earth.

"The white queen of the river men will be returned to the cave of Ugu." announced the chieftain of the savages, speaking in the language of the men of Teeheemen. "The white king shall also go with her. The white king and queen will make a good feast for King Ugu."

The arms of Holton were pinioned behind his back and he was escorted with Rosalie through the jungle back toward the eaves of the dog-faced savages.

After a long march without intermission, the open fields skirting the