If we were to fall suddenly upon them we might kill a lot and scare the rest off." "We are too few for that," the Doctor said.

"Besides, although Bathurst answers for the good faith of the sender of the warning, there has as yet been no act of mutiny that would justify our taking such a step as that.

It would come to the same thing.

We might kill a good many, but in the long run three hundred men would be more than a match for a dozen, and then the women would be at their mercy.

Well, we had better be moving, or we shall not have time to go round to the bungalows before the people set out for the Major's." It was a painful mission that Bathurst had to perform, for he had to tell those he called upon that almost certain death was at hand, but the news was everywhere received calmly.