Whatever dangers beset her she was determined to meet them with courage and patience.
"Rao, you had better return to Calcutta.

What I have to do must be done alone." "Very good.

But I shall remain here till the Mem-sahib returns." Rao salaamed.
"And if I should not return ?" affected by this strange loyalty.
"Then I shall seek Bruce Sahib, who has a camp twenty miles east." "Bruce?
But he is in Singapore!"-- a quickening of her pulses.
"Who can say where Bruce Sahib is?
He is like a shadow, there to-day, here to-morrow.

I have been his servant, Mem-sahib, and that is how I am to-day yours.

I received a telegram to call at your hotel and apply to you for service.