Well, we have pulled the Missie yonder out of the Slave Nest, and the Yellow Devil--ah! we have talked with him and all his crew.

And now are we to go on to win the gold--the real Yellow Devil, Baas ?" "I suppose so, Otter," answered Leonard--"that is, if Soa keeps her word.

But it isn't gold, it is rubies.

At any rate we must make for the Settlement below Sena, to take these men back and see if we can hear anything of Mavoom." "So," said Otter after a pause.

"Well, the Shepherdess, as these Settlement people call her, will want to find her father.