Part 30 (1/2)
”You take that side, I this”
Theythe branches, but they limpse of the yellow and black body that had so swiftly coone?”
”Maybe into a hole up there”
They stood staring up in bewilderment, but there was not a move the trees near The beast had vanished as coer than a fly
”Well,” said Co to take the skin off the dead one, before it disappears too”
They set to work stripping the skin off the lance around The work, however, was co their position, they hastened to retrace their steps Slowly they hit off the trail, and finally arrived as far as the place where Venning had first missed his bundle
”It's after us, dick!”--in a whisper
”Where?”
”Up a across as I looked back”
They looked up into the trees, and then at the dark shadows before the away
”I don't like it The beggaron us at any moment”
”Or it may wait bill it is too dark for us to see”
”Yes, by Jove!”
”It is bad; but I am afraid we do not know the worst”
”What do youtime back; and he would have coravely ”You think that so nodded ”It's allup into the trees ”We must dispose of that brute first But how?”
”I have an idea,” said Venning, after a long pause ”One of us will go on Ani, he may show hio on;” and at once Coerous post, advanced slowly, leaving Venning standing against a tree
A few h the branches high up, without, however, offering a ghost of aleft for him but to follow Co us now?” said the latter, glooood to climb up a tree?”
”I should think not Why, it's at hoth of the claws, and the length of the tail, which acts as a steerer, a balancing-pole, and a brake You see when it brings the tail down---?”
”No, I don't; but I do see that we are in a fix, and that the others ine Mr Huht in a trap, especially when he has the jackal”