The second attempted to dodge, but soon found out that lead can travel mortally fast when driven by powder.
He made his way into camp half an hour later with a broken arm, and the bullet lodged in his side.
Having thus rid himself of both pursuers, the giant once more rushed along.
The river bank was gained, and also the canoe.
"Whoop! hurrah! won it, by George! run the gauntlet too," said the daring man to himself, as he placed Adele, too powerless with terror to resist, in the boat; and after pushing the craft off, sprang in himself.
Young Mason had been so taken aback by the giant's sudden shots and his rapid flight that even had he so wished he could have done nothing to prevent him.
Before he actually realized what had occurred, Red Goliath had vanished from the lodge, carrying the boy's darling sister with him.
It seemed but half a minute had passed, and Mason was about to rise up from his place of concealment and follow on the giant's trail, when half a dozen Indians burst into the lodge to see what damage had been done here.
Hoskins would never steal another horse, he had gone to that bourne from whence no traveler e'er returns; in a word he was dead.
Pedro came crawling out of the dark corner with a hole in him large enough to let the life out of any common man, but which did not appear to inconvenience him at all.