eye which was as stem as the s he seems to be in a somewhat better manner than before he said that if he had more water you should have it but that he is himself short in supply he said that to morrow we shall come to the of and everybody shall have � and the too did he say how long we stopped here very little rest he said and thai forward oh mr hold your tongue i snapped the an once more to count times and distances if it au worked out as he expected if his wife had insisted upon the indolent giving an alarm at then the be already upon their track the corps or the egyptian horse would travel by moonlight better and than in the he knew that it was the custom at to keep at least a of them all ready to start at any instant he had dined at the mess and the officers had told him how quickly they could take the field they had shown him the water and the food beside each beast and he had admired the completeness of the arrangements with little thought as to what it might mean to him in the future it would be at least an horn before they would all get started again from their present halting place that would be a clear hour gained perhaps by next morning and suddenly his thoughts were terribly the tragedy of the interrupted the like a madman appeared upon the crest of the nearest slope with an hanging on to each of his wrists his ce was purple with rage and excitement and he and bent and in his furious efforts to get free you cursed i he shrieked and then seeing the others in front of him he cried they ve killed brown what had happened was this in his conflict with his own ill had strolled over this nearest crest and had foimd a group of in the hollow beyond with a little knot of angry loud men beside them brown was the of the group pale heavy eyed with his moustache manner they had searched his pockets before but now they were determined to tear off all his clothes in the hope of finding something which he had a hideous ne ro with silver in his ears and in the young s face there seemed to the colonel to be heroic and almost in that white calm and those abstracted eyes his coat was already open and the negro s black flew up to his neck and tore his down to the waist and at the sound of that r r and at the touch of those coarse fingers this man about town this finished product of the nineteenth century dropped his traditions and became a savage facing a savage his face flushed his lips l back lie his teeth an fu e and his eyes � those indolent eyes which had always so placidly � were and frantic he threw himself upon the d ro and struck the of the him again and again feebly but in his broad black ce he hit like a girl round arm with an open palm the man away for an instant appalled by this sudden blaze of passion then with an impatient cry he slid a knife from his loose sleeve and struck upward under the whirling arm brown sat down at the blow and began to to cough as a man who has choked at dinner after then the red cheeks turned to a there were liquid sounds in his throat and clapping his hand to his mouth he rolled over on to his side the negro with a brutal of contempt slid his knife up his sleeve once more while the colonel frantic with impotent anger was seized by the and dragged with fury back to his forlorn party his hands were lashed with a and he lay at last in bitter silence beside the so was gone and brown was gone and their eyes were turned from one pale face to another to know which they should lose next of that of li ht hearted who had stood out so clearly the blue morning when viewed from the deck of the two gone out of ten and a third out of his mind the pleasure trip was drawing to its climax the frenchman was sitting alone with his chin resting upon his hands and his elbows upon his knees staring miserably out over the desert when saw him start suddenly and up his head like a dog who hears a strange step then with clenched he bent his the tragedy of the ce forward and stared toward the black eastern hills through which they had passed followed his and yes � yes � there was something moving there i he saw the twinkle of metal and the sudden gleam and flutter of some white a upon the flank his twice round as a danger signal and discharged his rifle in the air the echo of the crack had hardly died away before they were all in their and another instant and the were on their feet and moving slowly toward the point of alarm several armed men surrounded the prisoners slipping into their as a hint to them to remain still by heaven they are men on i cried his troubles au forgotten as he strained his es to catch sight of these new comers i do believe that it is our own people in the confusion he had tu ed his hands fix m the which bound them they ve been than i gave than credit for said his eyes shining from under his thick brows they are here a long two before we could have reasonably expected them fa va i les ai les the excited as the a column of began to wind out from among the 