"I wonder where I shall be in July." Then came another pause, which seemed to affect even Sir Robert's nerves, for abandoning the papers, he walked down the room till he came to the golden object that has been described, and for the second time that day stood there contemplating it.
"This thing is yours, Vernon," he said, "and now that our relations are at an end, I suppose that you will want to take it away.

What is its history?
You never told me." "Oh! that's a long story," answered Alan in an absent voice.

"My uncle, who was a missionary, brought it from West Africa.

I rather forget the facts, but Jeekie, my negro servant, knows them all, for as a lad my uncle saved him from sacrifice, or something, in a place where they worship these things, and he has been with us ever since.

It is a fetish with magical powers and all the rest of it.