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Chew it after every meal Low ge wines pn ee Pan The F lavour Lasts + his eyes to the Patala Forest," The Dog Star ---- Yee Coralie Stanton AND Heath Hosken mmm L "Who ds 1t?" asked Peter, glancing towards the second hammock, 4 "A chap called Boone--a very good sort indeed. Knows the country in- side out. Your father's agent, Mo- riarty, sent him with me to look after me, and show me the ropes, you know. And he has been showing me about with a vengeance--only now he's fal- len sick, and we've lost our way in consequence.' "Well, I'm only 100 jolly glad," said Peter boyishly; "not that he's fallen sick, of course, but that you've lost your way, Lorion." They both advanced towards the /8econd hammock~ The men bearing it were also dead tired; they were standing stock-still, like animals, half stupefied with sleep as they stood. Boone lay on a bed as comfortable as Lorion had been able to improvise within the hammock. He was covered to the chin. His face was deathly white, mere skin and bone, merely a wedge of ghastliness in the gathering gloom. His mouth was shut; so were He gave no sign of life, except that his head rolled a little on his pillow from time to time. "Poor devil!" exclaimed Peter, touched to pity, although the 'man's face, with its tiny eyes and nose and protruding lower part, that was so reminiscent of a Blenheim spantel even in health, was not at all a sight to provoke sympathy in a stranger. In fact, it was a peculiarly unpleasant countenance. But he was white, and a strong chain bound him to any other white man here in the wilderness. "Look here" Peter went on, "we muygt get him properly to bed. Na- pier's hut is the largest, I think. We'll settle him in there." He pointed to the very moderate-sized cane and mud and leaf dwelling, and the men's weary black masks relaxed into something that might have been a smile, as, with a final effort, they shouldered their living load again and shuffled towards Mark Napler's dwell- ing. Peter and Lorion walked alter them, Lorion having told the rest of the men to stop awhile and wait for instruc- In a very short space of time Boone had been undressed, get into a suit of Napler's pyjamas, and made comfort- able in Napier's bed. Napier himself arrived just as the operation was com- pleted, and, after ition from Peter, he was introduced to Lorion, and then left to examine the patient in the medical knowledge. Lorion, meanwhile, went to have a much needed wash in Peter's hut. When he came ouf Peter and Napier were deep in conversation. The parson was shaking his head. "I'm sorry," he said, as Lorion join- ed them, "I'm afraid your friend is in a very bad way. To tell you the truth, I can't make out what's the mat- ter with him at all. He hasn't a very high temperature." "He has had, though," put in Lorion. " He's been raving for days." "I'm afraid he's sinking," said Na- pier. ' "What--dying?" cried the other, aghast. 'I'm afraid so. Mind you, I don't know much about these diseases of the tropics. It maybe just a torpid state he's sunk into after the fevers left him. But ft doesn't look to me like that. His vitality is at its very lowest ebb." The bearers of the party were iIn- formed- that they must camp out as best they could. The ordinary reme- dies appeared to be of no use to Boone. Napier gave him brandy. He swallowed a little, and rallied ever so slightly, but he could not speak, or even make known by signs whether he had any. communication to make. The others could only await develop- ments. It was arranged that Napler and Peter were to share the latter's hut, and a tent was fixed up for Lorion, offering as much resistance to sudden storms as was possible uhder the cir- cumstances. ventures that had brought him to the clearing wishout his @ver having meant to go near the place at all. ut first of all his curiosity about {Peter had to be satisfied. life." then?" Asked Peter. "Ruins?" them. Lorion was vastly .interested, but obviously more .in thelr human selves than in the archaological prize. Lorion ?" "well, we are &ipposed to be going explained Lor- fon. . "My dear man!" cried Napier. .] "What on earth have you done?" "Are' we much out of the way?" "1 should say a couple of hundred miles. I've been studying the country rather exhaustively of late. How did Qirections from him for a day or two; nade the mistake of bringing the same 'nen all the way through. They don't now an inch of the country. It was + foolish thing to do. 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