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and is bitter y cold. Few people 90 to
Bagl Perhaps that was the reason why
Dumoise weat there. He halted az seven
in the evening. aud his bearer went
down the hill ide TO the village TO en-.
gage coolies Tor the next days march.
The sun had SCI, aud the night winds
We're beginning ta Groom among the
rocks Daaioisc leaued on the railing OF
the veransla, witt Z for his bearer 60
return Tie man came back almost ina
mediately after he had disarp ared,
and at such Il rate that Damoise fan.
cied he must have crossed bear He
was running as hard as he could up the
face Of tile lill.
But there was no bear to account for
his terror. He raced to the veranda and
fell down, the Stood squirting from his
nose and his face iron gray. Then he
gurgled: Il have seen the Memsahibl ]
have seen the Meinsahibl"
~Wherey" said Dumoise.
Down there. walking ON the road to
the village Size was ia a blue dress,
and she lifted the veil Of her bonnet and
said: Ram Dass, give my salams to the
sahib and tell him that shall meet him
next month at Nuddea Then / ran
away, because l was afraid
What Dumoise said or did | do not
know. Ram Dass declares that he said
nothing. but walked up and down the
veranda all the cold night. waiting for
the Memsahlb TO come up the hill, and
stretching out his arms into the dark
like a madman. But no Memsahi5
came. and next day. he went on to
Smla cres questioning the bearer every
hour.
Ram ID ss could only say that he had
met Mrs. DdIaoise. and that she had
lif ID mp her veil and given him che
message whicl he had faithfully re-
lealed TO Dumoise. To this statement
Ram Dass adhered. He did not know
where Nuddea was, had no friends at
Nuddea, and would most certainly never
so to Nuddea, even though his pay was
doubled
Nuddea is in Bengal, and has nothing
whatever 10 do with doctor serving in
the Punjah It must be more than /, 200
miles from MeridkL
Dumoise went through Simla without
hating, aud returned to Meridki there
to take over charge from the man who
had been officiating for him during his
tour There were some dispsnsary ac-
counts to be explained, and some recent
orders of the surgeon general TO be
noted. and, altogether, the taking over
WAS a full days work. In the evening
Dumoise told his locum tenens. who
c.fJ Fu.s.. .,I IS L. -,
what had happened at Bagi; and the
man said that Ram Dass might as we'll
have chosen Tuticorn while he was
about it.
At that moment telegraph peon
came in with telegram from Spain,
ordering Dumoise not to. take over
charge at Meridki but to go at once to
Nuddea ON special duty. There was
nasty outbreak of cholera at Nuddea,
and the Bengal government, being short
handed, as usual, had borrowed surgeon
from the Punjab
Dumoise threw the telegram across
the table and said: "Well?s
The other doctor said nothing. 1t was
all that he could say.
Then he remembered that Dumoise
had passed through Simla on his way
from Bagi and thus might, possibly,
have heard first news OF the impending
transfer.
He tried to put the question, and he
implied suspicion into words, but Dr.
NOISE stopped him with: If had de-
sired that, Ishould never have come back
from Chini was shooting there
wish to live, for have things to debut
shall not be sorry.
The other man bowed his head and
helped, in the twilight. TO pack up Du-
noises just opened trunks. Ram Dass
entered with the lamps
Where is the sahib going r he asked.
TO Nuddea," said Dumoise softly.
Ram DAss clawed Dumoise's knees and
begged him not to go. Run Dass wept
and howled till lie was turned ont
of tie room. Then he wrapped up all
his belongings and came back to ask for
character. He was not going to Mud
dea to see his sahib die, aud perhaps to
die himself
So Dumoise gave the man his wages
and went down to Nuddea alone; the
other doctor bidding him good bye as
one under sentence of death.
Eleven days later he had joined his
Memsahib; and the Bengal government
had to borrow fresh doctor TO cope with
that epidemic at Nuddea Tie frs.
importation lay dead in Chooadanga
Oak Bungalow.