Again I say we can avenge; but against secret murder our powers only avail to deter.

If we would save, it must be by the use of natural precautions." What he said made me desirous of some conversation with Eveena before I started on a meditated visit to the Palace.

If I could not tell her the whole truth, she knew something; and I thought it possible on this occasion so far to enlighten her as to consult with her how the secret of my intended journeys should in future be kept.

But I found no chance of speaking to her until, shortly before my departure, I was called upon to decide one of the childish disputes which constantly disturbed my temper and comfort.

Mere fleabites they were; but fleas have often kept me awake a whole night in a Turkish caravanserai, and half-a-dozen mosquitos inside an Indian tent have broken up the sleep earned on a long day's march or a sharply contested battlefield.