23/47 He is tame and follows me about like a dog. Jock, poor Jock!" "Father, have you a pencil ?" "A pencil ?" blankly. It's a chance." "Good lord! and you're cool enough to think like that." The colonel went through his pockets feverishly. "Thank God, here's an old stub! But paper ?" Kathlyn tore off a broad blade of grass from her dress and wrote carefully upon it. If it fell into the hands of the natives they would not understand, If the baboon returned to camp. |