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Yet the air, as it blew gently round hiroup of palm trees rustled deliciously as he passed by; and above his head the big silver stars seeaze as though they knew and approved the errand which brought him out there, alone in the moonlit desert

When once he had conquered the instinctive feeling of soain half fearfully over his shoulder as he walked, he began to enjoy this uncoe

His spirits rose, he felt a wild inclination to sing and shout with glee--an inclination hastily checked by the ree was not far away, though hidden for the moment by the merciful palm trees--and he told hie of the Bedouins who had poisoned the well in the courtyard of the Fort was only an eht of Bruce Cheniston, dying in that barely-furnished roo contrivances hich civilization s exultation die down in his heart, and he walked more soberly as he told himself that it was probable he would not see Bruce Cheniston alive again

It was in the ht struck Anstice for the first tiht made him catch his breath and stand still in the desert, absolutely oblivious to any risks which hemarauders were he to be observed

He had suddenly realized that were Cheniston to die Iris would once more be free--free to marry another man did she so desire; and the very idea of that freedoainst his ribs in a positive fury of wild and tu

Never--he was thankful to reht soall in his power to defeat the gri iven hi Bruce Cheniston's life, were it possible for that life to be saved, and he was glad to know, looking back, that he had never for one second conte to hih the other man's death Even should he find, on his return, that Cheniston had indeed slipped into another world during his absence, he could always assure himself that he had not sullied the last strenuous hours in which he had fought for his patient's life with all his ht