He had seen the bird dart down between them; but so adroitly had it seized the cobra and carried it off, that Jan, looking only at Truey, had not perceived the serpent in its beak.

He was bewildered and terrified, for he still fancied that Truey was in danger.
When he heard her exclaim, "We are saved!" he was bewildered all the more.
"But the snake!" he cried out.

"Where is the snake ?" As he put these questions, he kept examining Truey from head to foot, as if expecting to see a reptile twined around some part of her body.
"The snake, Jan! Did you not see it?
It was just there, at our feet; but now--see! yonder it is.

The _secretary_ has got it.

See! They are fighting! Good bird! I hope it will punish the villain for trying to rob my pretty weavers.