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Now the elephants of the Chief Commissioner's stockades gave account of themselves. Youth had returned to them courage had been restored. They clamoured to heaven that they were doing well. They shouted to the universe that they belonged to him to Neela Deo, their King! Sanford Hantee scarcely saw an impossible thing Carlin on Mitha Baba's neck!
Carlin was melting before his eyes. . . . The brothers had come in, one by one, from over India. He answered when spoken to, but retained no registration as to whom he had spoken, or what had been said. Sometimes he was alone for a few moments with Carlin; and when her eyes were open he was appalled by the growing sense of distance in them.
Carlin had no fear because she was Carlin; but she had a clear eye for jungle shadows for beasts, saints, and men. As for the Kabuli, she quietly remarked: "Why, Margaret, can't you see he's a mad dog?" In other words, Carlin used the optic nerve as well as the vision said to be of the soul. "But, my dear, he seemed really stirred," Miss Annesley protested.
At this point the executive officer sent for Mr. Carlin, and directed him to take off the hatches and examine the cargo, especially what was under the pieces of machinery.
Be worse maybe when you do come up agin it." The ship-chandler was in earnest; every intonation proved it. O'Day arose from his seat and looked down at his companion. "That is not my way, Carlin, nor is it yours; and I have known you since I was a boy." "And you are goin' to keep it up, Mr. Felix?" "Yes, until I know the end or reach my own." "Well, then, God's help go with ye!"
In the long waiting days, he had learned what many a man afield had been forced to learn in loneliness, that when he was very still, and feeling high, not too tired in fact, when he could forget himself something of Carlin came to him, over the miles. But in spite of all he knew, much force of his life had strained forward to this moment of meeting. The shock of disappointment dazed him.
Consistent with his old philosophical dogma, this present was certainly the best he had ever known. Carlin was in it, as surely as if she were present. Roderick Deal had proved to be a man to respect; and to love, secretly . . . "the guardianship of an elder brother."
Next day he betakes himself to the castle. When he reached the door, a little flattering carlin met him standing in the door. "All hail and good luck to thee, fisher's son; 'tis I myself am pleased to see thee; great is the honour for this kingdom, for thy like to be come into it thy coming in is fame for this little bothy; go in first; honour to the gentles; go on, and take breath."
In some moments of the telling, it was like a phantom part of himself that he was questing for, through her words. Finally Skag heard that Carlin had spent eight years in England studying medicine and surgery, and again that the natives called her the Gul Moti, which means the Rose Pearl; or Hakima, which means physician. But her own name was Carlin!
Carlin had been standing over her all the time, his rough pea-jacket buttoned across his broad chest, his ruddy sailor's face with its fringe of gray whiskers, bushy eyebrows, and clear, steady gaze in vivid contrast to her own shrinking weakness. "It ain't altogether Martha," he exclaimed in tones suddenly grown deliberate. "It's you, your ladyship, that I particular came to see.
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