The Tyrants Of Kool Sim PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX A LAST STRANGE EXPERIENCE THE delay caused by the discovery of the boys and their rescue had left Tom and the Captain far behind the front of the fight. They sent the boys to Miss Malleson and Miss Tubbs, who waited still in the outer square, and then they pushed on through the palace. Everywhere they saw signs of slaughter and of wanton destruction, which Tom admitted he and no other had let loose. "I couldn't help it," he declared to Betterton. "They were an offence to God and man. You don't know all about them," meaning the King and his nobles. "I know quite enough," said the Captain. Here and there they saw dead--transfixed with arrows, thrust through with lances, or cut down with swords--members of the horrible little Koolsim aristocracy, and here and there members of the negro guard, and here and there, as they passed on, bound negroes who had been given quarter. The vengeful little folk, it was plain, would give no quarter to the detested enemies of their race, the loathsome and detestable poison-people. And still as they advanced they overtook signs and sounds of the contest. At length they came out upon the terrace or esplanade that overlooked the lake. They appeared just in the nick of time to see the end. The Arabs were behind and the little people before, and in front of all were the King and his household, shivering, snarling, and cowering. The Arabs would not be first there, for they feared the little poison darts which the little people heeded not at all. When Tom Malleson and Captain Betterton appeared, a crowd of the little people, armed now as much with negro lances as with their own bows, had swept the loathsome King and his people to the low wall that separated from the lake. "Leap or die!" yelled the...