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"Yes--just e can carry I have plenty of things out there--can give you all you need," said Sir Richard oes e need not anticipate a long stay No about a cup of tea? This beastly sand has gone down my throat in bushels"

He called the Soudanese attendant and gave him an order, and over the indifferent tea and Huntley and Palht to them, he and Anstice discussed Littlefield and other matters widely removed from the subject of their former conversation

It was seven o'clock when the train finally ran into the station at Cairo, hu like a beehive with its crowded native life, and ten h the busy streets beneath the clear green evening sky on the way to the hotel chosen by Sir Richard

"The Angleterre--it's quieter than Shepheard's," he said, "and anyhow it is only for one night After dinner we'll go and eht?"

"The earlier the better," returned Anstice proe drew up before the hotel he sprang out with an eagerness which seemed to betoken a readiness to start forthwith

By ten o'clock that night all arrangee packed, and all necessaries purchased, and shortly afterwards the two hts and retired to their respective rooms to seek the refreshment of sleep in preparation for the h Sir Richard, hiswith Anstice, fell into a sound slumber ten minutes after he laid his head down on his pillow, Anstice lay awake all night between the white walls of his hts which effectually banished sleep