airs and called, one to another. Down
towards the river a tiger coughed; and there was a shiver along the
branches where the monkeys sat. The priests had merely glanced at each
other. Carlin had not seemed to hear.

Three torches were kept blazing through the night, and by their light
the girl gave medicine and nourishment to the wounded one from time to
time. She did not speak to Skag, who often sat before her for an
interval, but she would occasionally look into his face, her eyes
dwelling with a curious calm upon him.

In the morning the wounded one was conscious. That day the suffering
wore upon him, and they brought wet leaves as the sun rose higher and
kept them changed beneath him, for coolness. . . . The fever left him
after the heat of noon. Not until then, did Carlin look upon Skag and
speak at the same time.

"Have I seen you before? . . . Who are you?"

When Skag heard himself answer, he realised his voice had something in
it he had never known before.

. . . That afternoon Carlin went back to Hurda, but came again for an
hour late in the afternoon. The next morning early, she came once more
and Skag was there. That afternoon, the elder priest said:

"He will live."

"Yes," Carlin repeated softly.

"But you don't seem glad," Skag said.

She was looking back toward the city.

"I was wondering if I could make them see what it means to spend the
afternoon in the jungle with a rifle."

"Couldn't they understand that this work of yours has delivered your
cousin from death?"

"Oh, no, they would laugh at that. They would remind me that I have
always been strange. Even if my cousin lost his life, they would not
learn. The priests would be called fanatics and would be made to
suffer and all the monkey-peoples--"

Skag could see that.

"Why do you not leave them?"

"Oh, I do not hate my people. I have many brothers, real men; and then
you must know English Government does wonderful things."

They were starting back toward the city leaving the two priests. Most
strangely, as no one Skag had ever met, Carlin could see the native and
the English side of things. He felt that Cadman would say this of her,
too. He wanted sanction on such things, because he felt that already
his judgment was not cold--on matters that concerned her. Everything
about her was more than one expected. She seemed to have an open
consciousness, which saw two or all sides of a question before speech.

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