re on that temple that I was thinking of.
Do you remember the poor string of prisoners who are being dragged
along to the feet of the great king,--how dejected they looked among the
warriors who led them? Who could,--who _could_ have thought that within
three hours the same fate should be our own? And Mr. Headingly----,"
she turned her face away and began to cry.

"Don't take on, Sadie," said her aunt; "remember what the minister said
just now, that we are all right there in the hollow of God's hand. Where
do you think we are going, Mr. Stephens?"

The red edge of his Baedeker still projected from the lawyer's pocket,
for it had not been worth their captor's while to take it. He glanced
down at it.

"If they will only leave me this, I will look up a few references when
we halt. I have a general idea of the country, for I drew a small map
of it the other day. The river runs from south to north, so we must be
travelling almost due west. I suppose they feared pursuit if they kept
too near the Nile bank. There is a caravan route, I remember, which runs
parallel to the river, about seventy miles inland. If we continue in
this direction for a day we ought to come to it. There is a line of
wells through which it passes. It comes out at Assiout, if I remember
right, upon the Egyptian side. On the other side, it leads away into the
Dervish country,--so, perhaps----"

His words were interrupted by a high, eager voice which broke suddenly
into a torrent of jostling words, words without meaning, pouring
strenuously out in angry assertions and foolish repetitions. The pink
had deepened to scarlet upon Mr. Stuart's cheeks, his eyes were vacant
but brilliant, and he gabbled, gabbled, gabbled as he rode. Kindly
mother Nature! she will not let her children be mishandled too far.
"This is too much," she says; "this wounded leg, these crusted lips,
this anxious, weary mind. Come away for a time, until your body becomes
more habitable." And so she coaxes the mind away into the Nirvana of
delirium, while the little cell-workers tinker and toil within to get
things better for its home-coming. When you see the veil of cruelty
which nature wears, try and peer through it, and you will sometimes
catch a glimpse of a very homely, kindly face behind.

The Arab guards looked askance at this sudden outbreak of the clergyman,
for it verged upon lunacy, and lunacy is to them a fearsome and
supernatural thing. One of them rode forward and spoke wi