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Doht of a herd of elephants in the river and that strange, fierce chorus of night sounds, as beasts of prey crept noiselessly around the camp, failed to move him For the moment his love of sport, his last hold upon the world of real things, see of an animal more or less? Hisalways for so which he failed to discover At dawn he watched for that strangely wonderful, transforht he sat outside the banda, waiting till the mountains on the other side of the river had lost shape and faded into the violet darkness His conversation with Von Ragastein had unsettled hiain Me their way once more into his brain On the first day he had striven to rid hiot some whisky, haven't you?" he asked

The doctor nodded

"There is a case somewhere to be found," he admitted "His Excellency told , but he advises you to drink only the white wine until his return"

"He really left that e?"

"Precisely as I have delivered it"

The desire for whisky passed, caht so that he sat up with the sweat pouring down his face and his tongue parched He drank lithia water instead Late in the afternoon of the third day, Von Ragastein rode into the camp His clothes were torn and drenched with the black mud of the swamps, dust and dirt were thick upon his face His pony al hiuest with punctilious courtesy, and there was a gleam of real satisfaction in his eyes as the two lad that you are still here," he said heartily "Excuse e We will dine a little earlier So far I have not eaten to-day"

"A long trek?" Dominey asked curiously

"I have trekked far," was the quiet reply

At dinner tiastein was one more himself, immaculate in white duck, with clean linen, shaved, and with little left of his fatigue There was soe which puzzled Douest, yet further removed from him in spirit and sympathy He kept the conversation with curious insistence upon incidents of their school and college days, upon the subject of Dominey's friends and relations, and the later episodes of his life Doed to talk about his earlier life, and all the time he was conscious that for some reason or other his host's closest and htest word Chane had been served and served freely, and Doates of that one secret chamber, talked volubly and without reserve After the ed as before into the open The silent orderly produced even larger cigars, and Dolass filled once more with the wonderful brandy The doctor had left them to visit the native camp nearly a quarter of athe table Only the black shapes of the servants were dilea stars They were alone