hopped off,
Haviland," said Mr Sefton.

"He'd have done it, too, and worse, if I hadn't been who I am. No,
really, that was the most extraordinary thing that could have happened.
We had given ourselves up, entirely, Oakley and I."

"I should think so," rapped out Mr Sefton. "They didn't call Cetchy
`Haviland's Chum' here to no purpose. Eh?"

"Well, you've had some rum experiences since you left us, Haviland,"
said Clay. "And here I and Sefton have been planted, grinding the mill,
year in year out--same old grind--all that time. What d'you suppose
will be the end of a fellow like Cetchy?"

"A violent one any way. There are only two ends possible to a savage in
his position--to be killed in battle or by a conspiracy of his own
people. He is a thorough savage, and the people he has to rule--the
Inswani--struck me as about as turbulent, ferocious, and bloodthirsty a
crowd as this world can produce. There's the whole situation, and it's
simple. Funny I should have tumbled in with Oakley, isn't it? Nick's
nephew."

Thus they yarned on, and at last Clay took his departure, for it was
late.

"Well now, Haviland," said Mr Sefton, the last thing. "What are your
plans for the future? Going to start off again or settle down? But I
suppose you're too confirmed a wanderer for that."

Haviland smiled.

"I shouldn't be surprised, sir."

Reader, no more should we.

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