Chapter
10
IT WAS THE SUDDEN RUMBLING GROWLS OF THE LAD AND THE lion that first attracted the attention of the marauders, all intent upon the struggle of their chief with the beautiful prisoner.
Turning, they beheld a sight that filled them with fear and consternation. There is little else on earth that an Arab fears as he fears a lion; and the sight of the prodigious proportions of the beast that was charging upon them was enough in itself to fill them with panic; but the presence of the naked white man, his face fierce with rage and hideous growls and roars bursting from his lips, was the last straw. Turning in very direction they sought their horses and escape; but several of the mounts, terrified at the roaring of the two beasts, had bolted up the canyon, and now three of the maraud
