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"By Jove, there's noit around in his glass "What a world! I hadn't eaten for thirty hours when I rolled up here last night, and drunk nothing but filthy water for days To-night, fricassee of chicken, white bread, cabinet hock and Napoleon brandy And to-astein?"

"Not for several days"

"What the mischief do you find to do so far frouest asked curiously

"If you really wish to know," Von Ragastein replied, "I a fro natives for drill"

"But what do you want to drill theo that you have four times as many natives under arms as we have You don't want an aruese"

"It is our custoastein declared a little didactically, "in Gero, to be prepared not only for what is likely to happen but for what er days, when I was in the Arht have made a man of me"

"Surely you had your chance out here?"

Dominey shook his head

"My battalion never left the country," he said "We were shut up in Ireland all the time That was the reason I chucked the ared their chairs a little farther out into the darkness, s soone off to see a patient, and Von Ragastein was thoughtful Their guest, on the other hand, continued to be re," he observed, lazily stretching out his hand for his glass, "should be full of interest to the psychologist Here we are, brought together by soht of our lives in an African jungle, two huether thousands oflines as far apart as the astein murmured, "upon that very blackness behind which the sun will rise at dawn You will see it come up from behind theworld"