10 Gorilla Adventure
“Nero and his gang were waiting in ambush, but they had picked a poor hideout. They had chosen a pit some twenty feet deep, masked by trees. It would have been perfect if it had not been for their most deadly enemy, carbon monoxide.
The gas, carried up by the force of the eruption, was heavier than air and therefore had settled down into any windless depressions such as this very pit. Nero and his men, huddled at the bottom of the pit, were now quite incapable of ambushing anybody. Unaware of th...e reason for the drowsiness, they had breathed the poison gas until they had been overcome by sleep - a sleep that would be permanent unless they were rescued at once.
‘Pull them out,’ Hal ordered.
His men, who usually obeyed him with alacrity, were slow to act. Mali said, ‘Bwana, these are your enemies. They tried to kill you with that rock. They are out to murder you and your brother. Now they are passing out, and nobody can blame you if you let them go.’ Hal disagreed. ‘There’s just one man here who is our enemy.MoreLess
The gas, carried up by the force of the eruption, was heavier than air and therefore had settled down into any windless depressions such as this very pit. Nero and his men, huddled at the bottom of the pit, were now quite incapable of ambushing anybody. Unaware of th...e reason for the drowsiness, they had breathed the poison gas until they had been overcome by sleep - a sleep that would be permanent unless they were rescued at once.
‘Pull them out,’ Hal ordered.
His men, who usually obeyed him with alacrity, were slow to act. Mali said, ‘Bwana, these are your enemies. They tried to kill you with that rock. They are out to murder you and your brother. Now they are passing out, and nobody can blame you if you let them go.’ Hal disagreed. ‘There’s just one man here who is our enemy.MoreLess
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