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"All that!" Do of that sort?"

"He is Military Commandant of the Colony," the doctor replied "He has also a specialfellow for a Ger insolence

The doctor was un his patient's pulse He concluded his examination a few minutes later

"You have drunk much whisky lately, so?" he asked

"I don't knohat the devil it's got to do with you," was the curt reply, "but I drink whisky whenever I can get it Who wouldn't in this pestilential cliood as he is treated," he declared "His Excellency drinks nothing but light wine and seltzer water He has been here for five years, not only here but in the swamps, and he has not been ill one day"

"Well, I have been at death's door a dozen tilishman rejoined a little recklessly, "and I don't much mind when I hand in my checks, but until that tiet it"

"The cook is preparing you soood to eat I cannot give you whisky at this moment, but you can have so," was the enthusiastic reply "What a constitution Ime ravenous"

"Your constitution is still sound if you would only respect it," was the co been heard of the rest of my party?" Dominey enquired

"Some bodies of Askaris have been washed up from the river," the doctor informed him, "and two of your ponies have been eaten by lions You will excuse I have the wounds of a native to dress, as bitten last night by a jaguar"

The traveller, left alone, lay still in the hut, and his thoughts wandered backwards He looked out over the bare, scrubby stretch of land which had been cleared for this enca shrubs beyond, h elephant track along which he had travelled; to the broad-boso into mist beyond The face of his host had carried hied at the strings of memory It came to him later on at dinner time, when they three, the Coed just outside the hut, that they ht catch the faint breeze fro darkness Native servants beat the air around them with bamboo fans to keep off the insects, and the air was faint almost to noxiousness with the perfume of some sickly, exotic shrub