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"No, no; you h forfast The fever had at least left her with an insatiable appetite

Allan decided she was noell enough again to nurse the baby So he and the faoat wereupof the twelfth day, as they sat once more on the terrace in front of Cliff Villa, he inventoried the situation thus: 1--Twenty-six of the Folk are dead 2--H'yemba is disposed of--praise be! 3--Forty still survive--twenty-eight men, nine women, three children Of these forty, thirty-three are sound 4--The Pauillac is lost 5--The bridge is destroyed, and eight of the caves are gone 6--The entire forest area to the northward, as far as the eye can reach, is totally devastated 7--The Horde is wiped out

"Soood items and some bad, you see, in this trial balance," he commented as he checked up the items "It means a fresh start in soe isn't fatal, as it ht easily have been We're about a thousand times better off than there was any hope for"

"You haven't counted in your oounds just healing, or the terrific tiested Beatrice "How in this world you ever got through I don't see"

"I don't either It was a miracle, that's all From the place where I descended for a little repair work, and where they suddenly attacked us, to the colony, can't be less than one hundred and fifty inable difficulties, Beta! Now that I look back on it ot here"

"They killed both the men you had with you?"

"Yes; but one of theed and wouldn't spray properly I realized I could never reach Settle it So I scouted for a likely place to land, far fronal-fires

"Well, we hadn't been on the ground fifteen minutes before I' to eastward

"'O Kro h the forest! Let us go!'

"I listened and heard it, too; and souard of the Horde was on us!

"It was night, of course My search-light was still burning, throwing a powerful white glare into the thicket about a quarter-mile away, beyond the sand-barren where I had taken earth I turned it off, for I remembered how ht in our night atmosphere