We will take them, as he bids us, forthwith to heaven." "What do they say ?" Muriel cried, clinging close to the white man's side in her speechless terror.

"Do you understand their language ?" "Well, I can't quite make it out," Felix answered, much puzzled; "that is to say, not every word of it.

They say they'll take us somewhere, I don't quite know where; but in Fijian, the word would certainly mean to heaven." Muriel shuddered visibly.

"You don't think," she said, with a tremulous tongue, "they mean to kill us ?" "No, I don't _think_ so," Felix replied, not over-confidently.

"They said we were Taboo.