When assured that it did, he announced that he was at the disposal of the venerable physician and his daughter.
The three pushed steadily toward Nepaul, cheered by the knowledge that with every mile passed their danger lessened.

They were in great peril more than once.

Twice they exchanged shots with marauding bands, and once their destruction seemed inevitable; but good fortune attended them, and at the end of a week they entered the wild, mountainous and sparsely-settled region, where at last all danger was at an end.
So it came about that when the young people took their final departure down the Ganges for Calcutta, thence to return to the United States, Dr.Marlowe went with them.

He and his son-in-law formed a partnership in the practice of their profession, and it is only a few years since that the aged physician was laid to rest.

He was full of years and honors, and willing to go, for he knew that the happiness of his daughter could be in no safer hands than those of Jack Everson.
LOST IN THE WOODS..