Then they only came at long intervals.

And at last they stopped.

He had complained once of an attack of sunstroke, and she was wretched, thinking he was ill.

At last a letter reached her from a brother officer, who seems to have behaved very kindly--with the explanation.

Her fiance had got into the clutches--no one exactly knew how--of a Greek family living in Alexandria, and had compromised himself so badly with one of the daughters, that the father, a cunning old Greek merchant, had compelled him to marry her.