village she was in a blue dress and she lifted the veil of her bonnet and said � ram give my to the and tell him that i shall meet him next month at then i ran away because i was afraid what said or did i do not know br word of mouth ram declares that he said but walked up and down the all the cold night waiting for the to come up the hill and stretching out his arms into the dark like a madman but no came and next day he went on to cross questioning the bearer every hour ram could only say that he had met mrs and that she had lifted up her veil and given him the message which he had faithfully repeated to to this statement ram he did not know where was had no friends at and would most certainly never go to even though his pay were doubled is in and has nothing whatever to do with a doctor serving in the it must be more than twelve hundred miles from went through without halting and returned to there to take over charge from the man who had ben for him during his tour there were some accounts to be explained and some recent orders of the surgeon general to be noted and altogether the taking over was a full day s work in the evening told his who was an old friend of his bachelor days what had happened at and the man said that ram might as well have chosen while he was about it at that moment a telegraph came in with a from ordering not to take over charge at but to go at tales from the hills once to on special duty there was a nasty outbreak of at and the being as usual had borrowed a surgeon from the threw the across the table and said � well the other doctor said nothing it was all that he could say then he remembered that had passed through on his way from and thus might possibly have heard the first news of the impending transfer he tried to put the question and the implied suspicion into words but stopped him with � if i had desired that i should never have come back from i was shooting there i wish to live for i have things to do but i shall not be sorry the other man bowed his head and helped in the twilight to pack up s just trunks ram entered with the lamps where is the going he asked to said softly ram s knees and boots and begged him not to go ram wept and howled till he was turned out of the room then he wrapped up all his and came back to ask for a character he was not going to to see his die and perhaps to die himself so gave the man his wages and went down to alone the other doctor bidding him good bye as one under sentence of death to be held for reference eleven days later he had joined his and the government had to borrow a fresh doctor to cope with that at the first lay dead in d k to be held for reference by the of the wild goat up tossed from the where she lay in the sun fell the stone to the where the daylight is lost so she fell from the light of the sun and alone now the fall was ordained from the first with the goat and the and the but the stone knows only her life is accursed as she sinks in the depths of the and alone oh thou who has the world oh thou who hast lighted the sun oh thou who hast darkened the judge thou the sin of the stone that was hurled by the goat from the light of the sun as she sinks in the mire of the even now even now from the papers of say is it dawn is it dusk in thy bower thou whom i long for who longest for me oh be it night � � be it � � o plain tales from the hills here he fell over a little that was sleeping in the where the horse and of the from central asia live and because he was very drunk indeed and the night was dark he could not rise again till i helped him that was the beginning of my acquaintance with when a and drunk sings the song of the bow er he must be worth he got off the s back and said rather thickly � t � i � i m a bit but a dip in will put me right again and i say have you spoken to about the mare s knees now was six thousand weary miles away from us close to where you mustn t fish and is le and stable a half mile further across the it was strange to hear all the old names on a may night among the horses and of the then the man seemed to remember himself and sober down at the same time he leaned against the and pointed to a comer of the where a lamp was burning � i live there said he and i should be extremely obliged if you would be good enough to help my feet thither for i am more than usually drunk � most � most tight but not in respect to my head my brain cries out against � how does it go but my head rides on the rolls on the hill i should have said and the i helped him through the of horses and he on the edge of the in front of the line oi c to for t a thanks o and little stars to think that a man should so 