But that is not all the story.

After many adventures, I, one Kaffir, and a little girl, lay senseless and dying in the Bad Lands, where we had wandered for days without water, and there we should have perished, but your daughter, Miss----" "Call her Stella," he broke in, hastily.

"I cannot bear to hear that name.

I have forsworn it." "Miss Stella found us by chance and saved our lives." "By chance, did you say, Allan Quatermain ?" he answered.

"There is little chance in all this; such chances spring from another will than ours.