Umballa, unprepared for this stroke, leaped through the window, followed by the hampered leopard.
It would have gone ill with Umballa even then had not some keepers rushed for the leopard.

In the ensuing confusion Umballa escaped.
"He is gone!" cried Bruce.

"Ahmed, send a runner to warn Ramabai to head for my camp! Quick! Get the elephants ready! Come, Kathlyn; come, Pundita!" He hastened them toward the elephants.

"Umballa made his escape east; it will take him some minutes to veer round to his men.

Come!" They waited at Bruce's camp an hour.