Against this sky of flaming sunset-clouds, hundreds of ships, anchored in the bay, lit their lesser crimson lights; while, now and then, a battleship which was signaling to another ship, flashed its message of light against the fading glow of glory in the crimson sunset.

As we turned into the Villa Valentina a wonderful opal light warmed the white city and the sand-hills they were no longer cold nor colourless; while banks of "rose" sunset-clouds were reflected "rose" in a grey-green sea. Tangier has two sides to it one native, the other European. The European side is all which appears on the surface, and it swamps the other.

But to-day the doctor had promised that Emma should come to see her, and Nora was seated at the window that looked towards the west, her favorite view; for there she could see the foaming brook as it poured from the mountain-side down through the valley; and there too the sunset-clouds were painted each evening by the setting sun, and made glorious pictures that delighted her sick and weary eyes.