It took him but a moment to bring her to land, where her father clasped her in his arms and broke down again.
"Dad, dad!" she whispered.

"Don't you see our God is powerfulest?
I believed I was going to be trampled to death, and here I am, with you once more." They hurried back as fast as Kathlyn's weakness would permit to where they had left their own elephants, doubting that they should find them, considering that it was quite probable that they had joined their wild brethren.

But no; they were standing shoulder to shoulder, flapping their ears and curling their trunks.

So many years had they been trained to hunt elephants that they did not seem to know what to do without some one to guide them.
Bruce ordered one of them to kneel, doubtfully; but the big fellow obeyed the command docilely, and the colonel and Bruce helped the exhausted girl into the howdah.

The colonel followed, while Bruce took upon his own shoulders the duties of mahout.