'I believe that you yourself suffered from the effect of one at least, you once told me so.' And memory--so active these late days, brought suddenly back the vision of him as he had approached her that evening at Government House.

What a great Viking he had looked!--in modern dress, of course, but bearing mark of battle in a slight drag of the left leg, only noticeable, she knew now, when he was shy and proud, and under, to him, difficult social conditions.

But what a MAN she had felt him to be then, among the other men! It seemed an outrage on her idealised image of him to hear him speaking in that dry, caustic manner.
'Ah, that's different.

The Gulf natives have a nasty way of barbing and poisoning their spears.

An ordinary spear-thrust is nothing to either black or white.