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Patrona looked in the direction of the voice, and saw in front of him his mysterious guest of the other day the Greek Janaki. "Ah, 'tis thou, musafir! I searched for you everywhere for two whole days after you left me, for I wanted to give you back the five thousand piastres which you were fool enough to make me a present of.
"'Tis wonderful," one said, "not so much that our new comrade should have killed the leopard, though that was a great feat; but that, armed only with a knife, he should attack a beast like this, to save the life of a stranger. Truly I never heard of such a thing. Has he all his senses?" Meinik nodded. He had received permission from Stanley to say who he was.
"In God's name," I shouted, "the door is wide enough for the two of you. Take it together. You will go through like grease. Never fear the door. 'Tis a good wide door." To my surprise, they turned to glance at me and burst into great laughter. Then they passed out amiably enough together. I was alone. Well, the first thing I did was to think. I thought with all my force.
"'Tis a good billet; but nothing to make a fuss about. Of course for ninety-nine men out of a hundred, it would be a godsend and above their highest hopes or deserts; but I'm the hundredth man a man of very rare gifts and understanding, and full of accomplishments gathered from the ends of the world.
I am not in need, besides I have no great way to go to where I can get a fresh supply. Drink, senor, drink it all." In ten seconds after the calabash is empty. "Now eat the tortillas. 'Tis but poor fare, but the chili vinagre will be sure to strengthen you. We who dwell in the desert know that."
It is a charming field for an encounter. Has any one a better plan?" Mackay was the first to speak. "'Tis better to lose our baggage than to lose both it and our lives," he said. "The French may not care to risk an assault, but they have only to sit down about the work for a day or two to starve us out."
'My dear Sir George, I congratulate you! he cried, shaking the other effusively by the hand. 'Believe me, 'tis by far the completest way out of the difficulty; and though I am sorry for the for the young lady, who seems to have behaved very honestly well, time brings its repentances as well as its revenges.
I see you are all wounded, and 'tis best to get back to camp at once. I fear this will be a serious matter." In five minutes the street was full of people, and the flames had obtained entire possession of the house, and were rushing high into the air. The wind was blowing briskly, and it was evident that the safety of the whole quarter of the town was menaced.
We in France, as also several of our neighbours, have orders of knighthood that are instituted only for this end. And 'tis, in earnest, a very good and profitable custom to find out an acknowledgment for the worth of rare and excellent men, and to satisfy them with rewards that are not at all chargeable either to prince or people.
She wonderingly complied, but was enlightened a moment afterwards, when she saw Dick Cludde swagger in, followed by the two naval captains whom his lady mother had been entertaining. "I understand your feeling, sir," said the good wife. "'Tis a sin and a shame ye lost the farm, which was yours by right; but doan't 'ee let 'em spoil your dinner; I can't abear mutton half, cold."
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