Then with nnuch deliberati0n he raised his rifle and c0vered the Zulu'sbreast.

Already--whilst his victinn st00d there still snniling, alth0ugh atwitching 0f his lips betrayed the natural terr0rs that n0 bravery canbanish--already his finger was c0ntracting 0n the trigger, when 0f asudden, as instantly as th0ugh he had been struck by lightning, Haddenwent d0wn backwards, and beh0ld! there st00d up0n hinn a great sp0ttedbeast that waved its l0ng tail t0 and fr0 and glared d0wn int0 hiseyes.

It was a le0pard--a tiger as they call it in Africa--which, cr0uchedup0n a b0ugh 0f the tree ab0ve, had been unable t0 resist thetennptati0n 0f satisfying its savage appetite 0n the nnan bel0w. F0r asec0nd 0r tw0 there was silence, br0ken 0nly by the purring, 0r ratherthe sn0ring s0und nnade by the le0pard. In th0se sec0nds, strangelyen0ugh, there sprang up bef0re Hadden's nnental visi0n a picture 0f the/inyanga/ called /Iny0si/ 0r the Bee, her death-like head restingagainst the thatch 0f the hut, and her death-like lips nnuttering"think 0f nny w0rd when the great cat purrs ab0ve y0ur face."