What I have not said is that in the end we arrived at the conclusion that our quest here was wild and useless and that we should do well to try to escape from the place before we became involved in a war of extermination between two branches of an obscure tribe, one of which was quite and the other semi-savage.
Indeed, although Ragnall still hung back a little, it had been arranged that I should try to purchase camels in exchange for guns, unless I could get them for nothing which might be less suspicious, and that we should attempt such an escape under cover of an expedition to kill the elephant Jana.
Supposing such a vision to be possible, then might it not have come, or been sent to deter us from this plan?
It would seem so.
Thus reflecting I went to sleep worn out with useless wonderment, and did not wake again till breakfast time.

That morning, when we were alone together, Ragnall said to me: "I have been thinking over what happened, or seemed to happen last night.

I am not at all a superstitious man, or one given to vain imaginings, but I am sure that Savage and I really did see and hear the spirit or the shadow of my wife.

Her body it could not have been as you will admit, though how she could utter, or seem to utter, audible speech without one is more than I can tell.

Also I am sure that she is captive upon yonder mountain and came to call me to rescue her.