nst the walls; and the Malays swarmed up on all sides.

A desperate struggle took place. Some of the ladders were high
enough to project above the wall. These, with the men upon them,
were thrown back. On others the Malays, as they climbed up, were
met by the spears of the defenders or, as their heads rose above
the walls, with the deadly kris. Their leaders moved about among
the throng below, urging the men forward; and Harry, seeing that
things were going on well, all round, took the guns from the hands
of the soldier who attended him, and directed his aim against
these.

Three fell to his first shots. As the soldier handed them to him,
reloaded, his eye caught a group of chiefs, behind whom stood what
was evidently a picked body of men. In the midst of the group was
the rajah to whom Harry had recently been a prisoner. With a
feeling of deep satisfaction, that his hand should avenge the
murder of his four troopers, Harry levelled his gun between two of
the defenders of the wall, took a steady aim, and fired.

[Illustration: Without a cry, the rajah fell back, shot through the]
head.

As the chief was but some twenty-five yards away, there was little
fear of his missing and, without a cry, the rajah fell back, shot
through the head. A yell of consternation rose from those around
him. Two more shots then rang out, and two more chiefs fell.

The others shouted to their men, and a furious rush forward was
made. Harry snatched up a spear, lying by the side of a native who
had fallen; shouted to the rajah's guard of twenty men--who were in
the yard below, as a reserve in case the enemy gained a footing at
any point of the wall--to come up, and then joined in the fight.

The assailants fought with such fury that, for a time, the issue
was doubtful. Several times, three or four succeeded in throwing
themselves over the wall; but only to be cut down, before they
could be joined by others. At last the Malays drew off, amid the
exultant shouts of the defenders.

In a short time, the attack became more feeble at all points. The
news of the death of their leader had doubtless spread, and its
effect was aided by several other chiefs falling under Harry's fire
and, ere long, not one of their followers remained inside the
palisade. Half an hour later, the lookout from the top of the
rajah's house shouted that the whole of the assailants were
retiring, in a body, towards the forest.

Excited by their victory, the rajah's t