"The Dyaks! On your left!" But Iris was rapidly gaining some knowledge of strategy.

Before she shrieked her warning she grasped a rifle.

Holding it at the "Ready"-- about the level of her waist--and depressing the muzzle sufficiently, she began firing down the side of the rock as fast as she could handle lever and trigger.

Two of the nickel bullets struck a projection and splashed the leading savages with molten metal.
Unfortunately the Lee-Metford beneath was unloaded, being in Mir Jan's possession for purposes of instruction.

Jenks whipped out his revolver.
"To the cave!" he roared, and Mir Jan's unwillingness to face a goblin could not withstand the combined impetus of the sahib's order and the onward rush of the enemy.