Brief description:
From the chapter 'Hank Harrigton's Triumph:'
"It was a terrible situation the four plebes found themselves in. They were on a narrow ledge of rock with a precipice below them, and no method of reaching the top. Above them were their dead-liest enemies, for once completely triumphant.
The yearlings might try any method of torture they chose; they might drop stones upon their victims’ heads. They might leave them there all night; or they might pass them a rope to climb up by and take them prisoners, one by one ‘as they came. After that the victims could be pummeled at the captors’ leisure.
Altogether, therefore, it was a most unpleasant state of affairs. The only possible hope lay in the chance that the gallant Oracle, with the aid of his timid comrade, might succeed in driving off those four powerful yearlings.
It was a very slim chance, however....."
"It was a terrible situation the four plebes found themselves in. They were on a narrow ledge of rock with a precipice below them, and no method of reaching the top. Above them were their dead-liest enemies, for once completely triumphant.
The yearlings might try any method of torture they chose; they might drop stones upon their victims’ heads. They might leave them there all night; or they might pass them a rope to climb up by and take them prisoners, one by one ‘as they came. After that the victims could be pummeled at the captors’ leisure.
Altogether, therefore, it was a most unpleasant state of affairs. The only possible hope lay in the chance that the gallant Oracle, with the aid of his timid comrade, might succeed in driving off those four powerful yearlings.
It was a very slim chance, however....."
Publication
Street & Smith, (1910) 1st,Pbk,,,Fair