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Rabda had brought in the basket a small silver cup, and Isobel, after drinking some wine and eating a few mouthfuls of food, lay down by her and was soon fast asleep. Bathurst ate a much more hearty meal. Rujub and his daughter said that they did not want anything before morning. The sun was high before Bathurst woke. Rujub had lighted a fire, and was boiling some rice in a lota.
After an hour's chat the Doctor started on his round of calls upon the ladies; the Major had not come in from the orderly room, and, after the Doctor left, Isobel Hannay was again the topic of conversation. "She is out and out the prettiest girl in the station," the Adjutant said to some of the officers who had not seen her.
Hunter smiled over her work. "Perhaps so, my dear; anyhow, I am glad he has come out, and I hope he won't retire into his cell again after you have all gone." "I suppose it depends a good deal upon his work," Isobel said. "My experience of men is that they can always make time if they like, my dear.
Are you sure? Do the Bartletts know?" "Nobody knows but you and me; nobody must know yet. Maybe she'll change her mind." "But the Bartletts will miss her. Have they called up?" "I 'phoned Miss Isobel that she was all right and she'd telephone in the morning. All right! Good God, Rose, can't we do something?"
"I'll write to Uncle Johnny right away," and she hurried from the room, a little fearful, perhaps, of the cloud that was noticeably darkening Isobel's face. "I think it's horrid," Isobel cried when she knew her mother was out of hearing. "What you got to kick about? How'd you like it if you was me with another girl around?" "If you was I," corrected Gyp, loftily. "I think maybe it'll be nice."
'It's like a fairy book! said the delighted Bobby. 'She waves her wand the fairy, you know and all the old things come new, and the ugly things come pretty! 'Lady Isobel is the fairy, said True. She was looking about her with great curiosity.
"What a wicked looking thing!" exclaimed Genevieve. "Surely, dear, you do not shoot it?" "Shoot it!" put in Ashton. "Hasn't she told you about saving me from a rattler?" "She did?" "Yes," he replied, and he told about the rattlesnake in the bunkhouse. "But I ought to have shot quicker," Isobel explained, when he finished. "I missed the head, though I aimed at it."
"Oh, Philip, we've been wondering where you were! Here's your brew, and we've each kept a little drop, to drink your good health." "Isobel," he said, standing by the table, as if he were making a speech, "I shall never forget your coming after me to-day. I told you you had the temper of an angel." "So did I," said Alice.
Hunter, the Doctor, and Rumzan as to the food to be taken, and the things that would be absolutely necessary for camping out; for, as it was possible that the first day's beat would be unsuccessful, they were to be prepared for at least two days' absence from home. Two tents were to be taken, one for the gentlemen, the other for Isobel and Mary Hunter.
A few minutes later, Thomas Jefferson Brown went out into the sea again, until he was not much more than a speck, and brought in the canoe and Lord Meton, while Lady Isobel stood to her knees in the water, praising her God that from riches and splendor she had come out into a wilderness to find such a man as this.
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