"Those villains are quietly asleep," she said, seeing the warriors reposing, "while the man they were ordered to watch is laughing at them far away."
She spurned them with her foot.
"Accursed dogs!" she yelled, "wake up! The prisoner has escaped!"
The men did not stir.
"Oh, oh!" she said, "What means this?"
She stooped down and carefully examined them: all was revealed to her at once.
"Dead!" she said; "he has assassinated them. What diabolical power must this race of reprobates possess!"
After a moment of terror, she sprang up furiously and rushed through the camp, shouting in a shrill voice:
"Up, up! Warriors, the prisoner has fled!"
All were on their feet in a moment. Unicorn was one of the first to seize his weapons, and hurried towards her, asking the meaning of those unusual sounds. In a few words White Gazelle informed him, and Unicorn, more furious than herself, aroused his warriors, and sent them in all directions in pursuit of Nathan.