As he spoke he fell back with a cry of pain.

An arrow had struck him on the shoulder inflicting a painful wound.

Like a flash Harry took in the situation and leaped to the steering
wheel. As he did so the savage with whom he had been contending
clambered clear into the chassis. At the same instant Ben Stubbs'
revolver dispatched the last of the men clinging to the planes and
the Golden Eagle began to rise.

As she shot upward the savage who had climbed into the chassis gave
a wild shriek of real terror. But his outburst didn't come before
he had made a savage lunge at Ben Stubbs with a short heavy knife.
The solo adventurer dived under the black's arm and struck it upward
as he lunged and the weapon went whirling groundward out of the
air-ship.

With a cry of despair the savage rushed to the edge of the car and
was about to throw himself into empty air when Ben leaped forward to
try to restrain him.

But it was too late.

As the boys' sturdy companion gallantly attempted to save the
savage's life a flight of arrows whizzed up from below.

With a groan the man on the edge of the car pitched forward into
open space, pierced to the heart with an arrow sped by one of his
own tribesmen. Down he shot like a stone to the earth below, while
the Golden Eagle--as if rejoicing in her escape, shot upward and