The bay was off like a shot, leaving Phil directly in front of the oncoming elephants.
"Run! I'll come back and get you," shouted Dimples over her shoulder.
"You can't. The reins are over the bay's head," he answered.
She was powerless to help. Dimples realized this at once. She was in no danger herself. She was such a skillful rider that it made little difference whether the reins were in her hand or on the ground, so far as maintaining her seat was concerned. With Phil, however, it was different.
"I guess I might as well stand still and take it," muttered the lad grimly.
He turned, facing the mad herd, a slender but heroic figure in that moment of peril.
CHAPTER XV
EMPEROR TO THE RESCUE
"Get back!" shouted the boy.
He had descried Teddy Tucker driving his own mount toward him. Teddy was coming to the rescue in the face of almost certain death.