One said, "Let me kill her! I will not go! Keep back, you pale-faced girl!" and then a lower, troubled voice, "Do not let her come! Her face is terrible! What are those strange creatures with her?
Harvey, where are you ?" At last, with a fierce cry, that died away in a shuddering sigh, the form of flesh and blood, so mysteriously possessed, ceased to struggle, and sank back in Freeman's arms.

His own strength was well-nigh at an end.

He laid her on the ground, and, sitting beside her, drew her head on his knee.

He had been in the land of spirits, contending with unknown powers, and he was faint in mind and body.
Yet he was conscious of the approaching tread of horses' feet, and recollected the hail that had come from the desert.

Soon loomed up the shadowy figures of mounted men, and they came so near that he was constrained to call out, "Mind where you're going! You'll be over us!" "Who are you ?" said a voice, which sounded like that of General Trednoke, as they reined up.
"There's Kamaiakan, who's dead; and Miriam Trednoke, who has been out of her mind, but she's got over it now, I guess; and I,--Harvey Freeman." "My daughter!" exclaimed General Trednoke.
"My boy!" cried Professor Meschines.