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She smiled again her faint, sad smile. "You are very kind. It makes it much easier. You know how clever he is in native disguise. I never recognized him. I came back, as I thought, a widow. And then it was nearly a year after I married Everard, because I loved him. It was just before Captain Ermsted's murder. We had to come back here in a hurry because of it.

"She is rather a handful. Why don't you leave her to her mother?" "Because she is utterly unfit to have the care of her." Stella spoke with very unusual severity. "Since Captain Ermsted's death she seems to have drifted into a state of hopeless apathy. I can't bear to think of a susceptible child like Tessa brought up in such an atmosphere." "Apathetic, is she? Do you often see her?"

The weeks had begun to slip by with incredible swiftness. The tragedy of Ermsted's death had ceased to be the talk of the station. Tessa had gone back to her mother who still remained a semi-invalid in the Ralstons' hospitable care.

Ermsted, regarding whom the report had gone forth that she was very seriously ill. Lady Harriet sought to probe Stella upon the subject and was plainly offended when she pleaded ignorance. She also tried to extract Monck's opinion of poor Captain Ermsted's murder. Had it been committed by a mere budmash for the sake of robbery, or did he consider that any political significance was attached to it?

Tessa had a great deal to say in disparagement of the Rajah of Markestan, and said it so often and with such emphasis that at last Captain Ermsted's patience gave way and he forbade all mention of the man under penalty of a severe slapping. When Tessa had ignored the threat for the third time he carried it out with such thoroughness that even Netta was startled into remonstrance.

The Rajah has been deeply incriminated and is in hiding. The Government will of course take over the direction of affairs, but there is certain absolutely certain to be a disturbance when Ermsted's murderer is executed. I hope an adequate force will soon be at our disposal to cope with it, but it has not yet been provided. Therefore I cannot possibly permit you to stay here any longer.

"Captain Ermsted's murderer will probably be traced one day." "Probably, sir," agreed Major Burton, "since I hear unofficially that Captain Monck has the matter in hand. Ah!" He broke off short as, with a brief knock at the door, Monck himself made an abrupt appearance. He came forward as if he saw no one in the room but the Colonel.

As Captain Ermsted's widow and " he spoke as one hewing his way "the chosen friend of the Rajah, your position in the State is one of considerable difficulty possibly even of danger. And I do not propose to allow my wife to take unnecessary risks. For that reason I must ask you to go before matters come to a head. You have stayed too long already."

Ermsted's lips, but she said nothing for the moment. In her own fashion she was fond of the surgeon's wife, and she would not openly deride her, dear good soul. "When you've quite finished that," she remarked presently, "there's a tussore frock of my own I want to consult you about.

And there was Rustam Karin whom long ago she had secretly credited with Ralph Dacre's death the serpent in the garden the serpent in the desert also whose evil coils, it seemed to her, were daily tightening round her heart. It was three days later that Tommy came striding in from the polo-ground in great excitement with the news that Captain Ermsted's murderer had been arrested.