The Badminton Magazine 1899-02: Vol 8 Iss 43 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 10
THE ORDEAL OF THE SPEAR 129 In a few minutes they were standing beside the body as it lay upon a common native charpoy. She looked almost as if she were resting after a bout of tennis. Her white frock and gay silk blouse were fresh and scarcely dishevelled ; but there was an awkward uprightness… … seemed flattened down into the cot, and the unnatural sternness about the waxen face, with its half-closed eyes and parted lips, showed that Edna Clay was dead. Her elephant, frightened at the final rush and turmoil of the race, had turned and fled among the trees, to the instant destruction of the…
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