set Suzanne, having first tied her feet together loosely with a riem so
that she might not slip to the ground and attempt to escape by running.
Moreover, as she was still in a swoon, they supported her, Black Piet
walking upon one side and a Kaffir upon the other. In this fashion they
travelled for the half of an hour or more, until they were deep in among
the mountains, indeed, when suddenly with a little sigh Suzanne awoke,
and glanced about her with wide, frightened eyes. Then memory came
back to her, and she understood, and, opening her lips, she uttered one
shriek so piercing and dreadful that the rocks of the hills multiplied
and echoed it, and the blood went cold even in the hearts of those
savage men.

"Suzanne," said Swart Piet in a low, hoarse voice, "I have dared much to
win you, and I wish to treat you kindly, but if you cry out again, for
my own safety's sake and that of those with me, we must gag you."

She made no answer to him, nor did she speak at all except one word, and
that word "_Murderer_." Then she closed her eyes as though to shut out
the sight of his face, and sat silent, saying nothing and doing nothing,
even when Piet and the other man who supported her had mounted and
pushed their horses to a gallop, leading that on which she rode by a
riem.



It might be thought after receiving a pistol bullet fired into him at a
distance of four paces, and being cast down through fifty feet of space
into a pool of the sea, that there was an end of Ralph Kenzie for ever
on this earth. But thanks to the mercy of God this was not so, for the
ball had but shattered his left shoulder, touching no vital part, and