Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble forward, and sink down on his hands and knees.

Between his naked shoulders, low down and to the left, appeared the bone-barbed head of an arrow.

He had been shot through and through.
Cocked rifles swept the bush with nervous apprehension.

But there was no rustle, no movement; nothing but the humid oppressive silence.
"Bushmen he no stop," Binu Charley called out, the sound of his voice startling more than one of them.

"Allee same damn funny business.