The shot had been too late to stop the lance, but sufficient to
divert its course. It caught David in the flesh of the body under the
arm--a slight wound only. A few inches to the right, however, and his day
would have been done.
The remaining Arabs turned and fled. The fight was over. As David,
dismounting, stood with dripping sword in his hand, in imagination, he
heard the voice of Kaid say to him, as it said that night when he killed
Foorgat Bey: "Hast thou never killed a man?"
For an instant it blinded him, then he was conscious that, on the ground
at his feet, lay one of the Three Pashas who were to die at sunset. It
was sunset now, and the man was dead. Another of the Three sat upon the
ground winding his thigh with the folds of a dead Arab's turban, blood
streaming from his gashed face. The last of the trio stood before David,
stoical and attentive. For a moment David looked at the Three, the dead
man and the two living men, and then suddenly turned to where the
opposing forces were advancing. His own men were now between the position
and Ali Wad Hei's shouting fanatics.
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