The soldiers would think you were making a bolt of it.

Quick now.' In a moment he was down, and at my bidding Umslopogaas sprang into the empty saddle.
'Now farewell,' I said.

'Send a thousand horsemen with remounts after us in an hour if possible.

Stay, despatch a general to the left wing to take over the command and explain my absence.' 'You will do your best to save her, Quatermain ?' he said in a broken voice.
'Ay, that I will.

Go on; you are being left behind.' He cast one glance at us, and accompanied by his staff galloped off to join the advance, which by this time was fording the little brook that now ran red with the blood of the fallen.
As for Umslopogaas and myself, we left that dreadful field as arrows leave a bow, and in a few minutes had passed right out of the sight of slaughter, the smell of blood, and the turmoil and shouting, which only came to our ears as a faint, far-off roaring like the sound of distant breakers..