And now at last they began to see their enemy.

Here and there among the boulders in front of them there was the glimpse of a slouched hat, or a peep at a flushed bearded face which drooped over a rifle barrel.

There was a pause, and then with a fresh impulse the wave of men gathered themselves together and flung themselves forward.

Dark figures sprang up from the rocks in front.

Some held up their rifles in token of surrender.