REALITY _V_.

ROMANCE--THE CASE FOR THE PLAINTIFF Night after night the Pleiades swung higher in the firmament; day after day the sailor perfected his defences and anxiously scanned the ocean for sign of friendly smoke or hostile sail.

This respite would not have been given to him, were it not for the lucky bullet which removed two fingers and part of a third from the right hand of the Dyak chief.

Not even a healthy savage can afford to treat such a wound lightly, and ten days elapsed before the maimed robber was able to move the injured limb without a curse.
Meanwhile, each night Jenks slept less soundly; each day his face became more careworn.

He began to realize why the island had not been visited already by the vessel which would certainly be deputed to search for them--she was examining the great coast-line of China and Siam.
It was his habit to mark the progress of time on the rudely made sun-dial which sufficiently served their requirements as a clock.