It is only a long blue robe, enveloping you from head to foot; and one of those hideous white cotton veils, falling from below the eyes.

I will get a bottle of iodine, and you will then only have to darken your forehead and eyelids, and you could pass, unsuspected, through any crowd." "But what are you going to do, Gregory ?" "I will get a native dress, too; but you must remember that though, if possible, I will come to you, I may not be able to do so; and in case you hear of any tumult going on, you must take Baby, and go down at once to the port.

You know enough of the language, now, to be able to tell a boatman to take you off to one of the steamers in the port.

As soon as I get away I shall go round the port, and shall find you without difficulty.

Still, I do not anticipate any trouble arising without our having sufficient warning to allow me to come and see you settled on board ship; and I can then keep on in the office until it closes, when I can join you again.
"Of course, all this is very remote, and I trust that the occasion will never arise.