"They know where we are, of course, but they'll take their time about attacking." "Keep your heads down, lads," said Willet.

"Don't be too eager to see.
If they're too far away for us to shoot at we are too far away for them too." Five minutes later and a flash came from a thicket on their left.
Willet pulled trigger at the flash and a death cry came back.
"That's one out of the way," said Black Rifle calmly, "and they're mad clean through.

Hear 'em yell!" The fierce war whoop died in many echoes, and bullets spattered the rocks about them.

The five made no further reply as yet, but the forest battle was now on..