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.
"You can't make it! Go back!"
Whether or not Teddy heard and understood, did not matter,
for at that moment the view of the plucky lad was shut off
by the elephants forming their charging line into crescent shape.
"Emperor!" he called in a shrill penetrating voice. But in the
dust of the charge he could not make out which one was Emperor,
yet he continued calling lustily.
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