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A crashing in the clump of hill bamboos at their feet attracted their attention; and with a smile he pointed down to the great elephant with the single tusk who was dragging down the feathery plumes with his curving trunk. But Noreen looked up at Dermot again and said: "I love you more than even Badshah does." And their lips met. A Selection from the Catalogue of

Rice, and Noreen felt that there was something hostile in the way in which they looked at her. Payne answered in a careless tone: "Let's sit down. There are a couple of chairs. We'll bag them." He pointed to two at the far end of the verandah and led the way to them. When they were seated he said: "Haven't you any idea of what she means, Miss Daleham?" The girl stared at him anxiously.

The consequence of the plotting was that Noreen Daleham, fretting in Darjeeling at having to wait for her brother to come there for the Puja holidays, received a letter from him saying that he had changed his mind and had accepted an invitation from the Rajah of Lalpuri for her and himself to be present at the celebrations of the great Hindu festival at the Palace.

When she was taken to the general's house she was in great dejection, and her face had a look of ennui and despair. She was thin and worn, and her eyes only told of the struggle going on between life and death. "What is her name?" asked the resident doctor. "Noreen Balfe," was the reply of the ship's doctor. "A good old Irish name, though you can see she comes of the lower ranks of life."

For the same post had brought him a letter from Noreen Daleham which told him that she was then, and had been for some time, in that hill-station. The climate of the Terai, unpleasantly but not unbearably hot in the summer months, is pestilential and deadly during the rains, when malaria and the more dreaded black-water fever take toll of the strongest.

Mother says it was probably catching insects on the glass. She laughs at omens!" "I always double my thumb inside my fist if I walk under a ladder," volunteered Noreen. "Well, it is unlucky to go under a ladder," declared Phillida. "You may get a pot of paint dropped on your head!

When he arrived near the spot in which the man-eater was said to have his lair, Dermot stopped them all. Despite her protests he tied Noreen firmly with the puggri to the rope crossing Badshah's pad. Then he drove his animal into the herd of tuskers, which had crowded together, and divided them into two bodies. The tiger was reported to lie up in a narrow nullah filled and fringed with low bushes.

He had tried to speak to Noreen after dinner, but it was so apparent that she wished to avoid him that he gave up the attempt. He endured Mrs. Rice's company with admirable resignation, but was thankful when the time for "good-night" came at last. The men stayed up an hour or two later, and then after a final "peg" went off to bed.

Then the band began to play item number four on the programme, and Noreen Percival came forward with a sigh of relief. "At last I am free! They've all come, or practically all, and we can't wait for the laggards. The Hunt begins at three o'clock. Mother thought we'd better have it early, as it would shake them up and make them more lively and sociable.

I get the cook to give them to us for tea often." She watched him with interest and amusement, as he turned the cakes over with a dexterous flip when one side browned; then, when they were done, he took them off and piled them on a large leaf. "Who would ever imagine that you could cook?" Noreen said, laughing. "Do let me help. I feel so lazy." "Very well.