Several times the canoe was in danger of capsizing as they grounded on a mud-bank, and more than once they narrowly missed being overturned by the lashing of the tail of some gigantic alligator.
But there was a third way. And the means lay at her hand. "Put that thing down!" His cry of warning came too late. With a deliberate movement Glorine had already jabbed the thorn into her wrist, and even as she did so she heard a shot ring out and the sound of men's voices calling to them to stop—not the cry of savages, but the shout of American sailors coming from the bank! But it came too late! Already her senses were fast slipping from her.
Giant alligators in the water after the Evil Spaniard™ has absconded with her! But then the heroine (casual reminder her name is GLORINE, of all things) is like, "Fuck this, I'm out," and stabs herself with a deadly poison dart!!! #savages #thedrama
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