The tide was turned. The next moment, as Bob, flushed with victory, prepared to leap in amongst the wavering mass of the Bone Crusher’s , and Frank appeared at his side. Too well they knew the big fellow’s rashness when his blood was up to hold back any longer. Not that they had been holding back, however. So quickly had Bob acted that the passage of time since he had leaped down from the top of the wall and made his sudden attack on the Bone Crusher could be measured in seconds.  
Jack and Frank had followed at once, Wimba at Frank’s heels like a faithful dog. Now they ranged themselves beside their comrade.
 
“Steady, old thing,” warned Jack, as Bob with a wild gleam in his eyes appeared on the of tackling the enemy host single-handed. “Let’s stick together. You’ve thrown an awful scare into them.”
 
In fact, the Bone Crusher’s men showed little stomach for fighting, that is, for facing Bob. The mute evidence of the latter’s prowess was at his back, where the figure of the Bone Crusher lay without a quiver, since that blow on the point of the .
 
But the in did not last. Chief Ruku-Ru’s men were heartened by the turn of events in their favor. They crowded forward with sharp yells. The flight of arrows into the mass of the enemy began anew.
 
“I haven’t the heart to shoot to kill,” muttered Frank. “But if they realize we have firearms, they may flee more quickly. I’m going to shoot over their heads.”
 
He suited action to word, and began pumping away with his automatic. It was the last thing needed to hasten the growing panic. In a trice, conditions were reversed. The Bone Crusher’s men broke into headlong flight, dashing away pell mell amongst the huts on the opposite side of the village square. And the villagers streamed past the boys in pursuit.
 
They found themselves practically alone in the square. Pursuit drew away into the distance. The vengeful cries of the villagers with the screams of the came back to them. , they gazed about at the numerous evidences of the battle just ended, in the women abandoned by their captors and not yet realizing their fortunate rescue, in the bodies of a score of men, including that of Chief Ruku-Ru and the Bone Crusher, and in arrows here and there.
 
“By golly, Bob,” said Frank, whose face was pale, as he thought of the into which his big chum had launched himself, “I’ve seen you do a lot of foolish things, but that was the worst. To tackle that giant.”
 
“Huh,” was all the other to reply.
 
Jack was bending above the form of Chief Ruku-Ru, and a moment later he straightened up and the others to join him.
 
“Unconscious but beginning to mutter,” he said. “He’ll recover soon. I think his right shoulder is dislocated, but I don’t believe he has any serious injury. Let’s carry him to his hut, and I’ll try to set his shoulder.”
 
With Wimba’s aid, the four boys bore the body of the chief to the door of his hut, from which one of the chief’s wives who hastened to join them brought out a pallet. On this they laid the unconscious form, while Jack worked at setting the dislocated shoulder. In this he was successful as, like all the boys, he was well drilled in administering first aid and performing rude surgery such as in the wilds .
 
Wimba and Matse rounded up the scattered bearers, and several were despatched to the boys’ camp to obtain the medical . They returned quickly, bringing the welcome intelligence that the camp had not been disturbed by the raiders who, approaching the village from an opposite direction, doubtless were of its presence.
 
Thereupon, all three boys busied themselves administering to the wounded, a score of whom were collected. Women were pressed into service, as all the able-bodied men had joined in the pursuit of the routed enemy. Not until many hours of under the hot sun had been spent, however, was their self-imposed task of mercy completed. Then all the wounded had been attended to and made ............