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A COMPACT.
Drifting, slow drifting down a wizard stream.
"No one knows," Victor Durnovo was in the habit of saying, "what is going on in the middle of Africa." And on this principle he acted.
"Ten miles above the camping-ground where we first met," he had told Meredith, "you will find a village where I have my headquarters.

There is quite a respectable house there, with--a--a woman to look after your wants.

When you have fixed things up at Loango, and have arranged for the dhows to meet my steamer, take up all your men to this village--Msala is the name--and send the boats back.

Wait there till we come." In due time the telegram came, via St.Paul de Loanda, announcing the fact that Oscard had agreed to join the expedition, and that Durnovo and he might be expected at Msala in one month from that time.