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One thing was evident, that with the strict guard kept over the place any attempt at evasion would have been useless, and it was decided that if they were to escape it must be during their journey to Khartoum. "But we must not give up all hope of seeing Ibrahim return," said the doctor. "Go to the men, Landon, and find out what they think about their chief."
Ibrahim will do what is best. I have had a long talk with him, and he proposes to go in a roundabout way for the enemy's camp." "What! not go straight there?" "No; it would mean suspicion. We must not go there unasked." "Landon!" said Frank appealingly. "It is quite right, and even if it takes time it will be the surest way.
"No!" he answered, in so fierce a tone that Robin stood amazed "Why do you all keep on asking me about Landon? He loves drink more than life, and he's having all he wants to-night. I've let him off work to-morrow." Robin was silent for a moment out of sheer surprise. "Oh well, that's all right, if you don't mind," he said, at last "We're pretty busy but I daresay we can manage without him."
"Why don't you tell the truth?" he asked fiercely. "Why don't you say afraid?" "Because it does not," she answered; her eyes, however, would not meet his. "I think uncomfortable describes it better." Landon stared at her with sombre eyes. He was beginning to tire of their pretty game of make believe; perhaps impulse was waning within him. Anyway he felt he had wasted enough time on the chase.
Landon returned to Ann Arbor and took a course in the medical department of the University, after which he reentered service as assistant surgeon of his old regiment. He survived the war, and became a physician and surgeon of repute, a pillar in the Episcopal church, and an excellent citizen.
Mrs. Carew must have been a little surprised at such a designation. Joan took it upstairs to read, lingering over the opening of it with a pleasurable thrill. The days had been very grey lacking his companionship. "Dear Pierrette," Landon had written, "is our romance finished, and why? The only thing I have left to comfort me is a crushed red rose. You wore it the first evening we ever met.
You're a sentimental goose, Miss Stuart, and have taken Byron and Miss Landon in too large doses." "But you like him," persisted his sister, "don't you, Dithy?" "Like him like him!" Her whole face lit up for a second with a light that made it lovely. "Well, yes, Trix, I don't mind owning that much I do like Charley like him so well that I won't marry and ruin him.
The stranger cautiously lifted the light in his left hand, bending over the sleeper, while with his right he drew a broad, sharp poniard from his belt, and raised it in the act to strike. But just as it was descending, Landon caught the assassin's arm, and shouted in his loudest tones, "Don Rodrigo, wake!" "Baffled!" cried the ruffian, with an oath. "You shall pay with your life for interfering."
Then Mordaunt had written to Landon, at "Bizarre," just over the mountain, to come and complete the party he had promptly arrived and I found myself in presence of three old comrades, any one of whom it would have been a rare pleasure to have met. Mohun and Landon were as unchanged as Mordaunt.
"Thou art safe beneath this roof," said the Hebrew, "for Donna Florinda, though the daughter of the man of tiger blood, hath yet befriended us and ours, and for her sake as well as for thine, thou art welcome." Landon thanked his new friends for their hospitable pledges. "I would fain," said the old Hebrew, "give thee garments more fitting than the accursed robe that wraps thy youthful limbs.
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