e's neck. There was a quick wrist movement of the thrower,
the noose tightened. The Killer braced himself with the rope across
his hip, and as the antelope tautened the singing strands in a last
frantic bound for liberty he was thrown over upon his back.

Then, instead of approaching the fallen animal as a roper of the
western plains might do, Korak dragged his captive to himself, pulling
him in hand over hand, and when he was within reach leaping upon him
even as Sheeta the panther might have done, and burying his teeth in
the animal's neck while he found its heart with the point of his
hunting knife. Recoiling his rope, he cut a few generous strips from
his kill and took to the trees again, where he ate in peace. Later he
swung off in the direction of a nearby water hole, and then he slept.

In his mind, of course, was the suggestion of another meeting between
Meriem and the young Englishman that had been borne to him by the
girl's parting: "Tonight!"

He had not followed Meriem because he knew from the direction from
which she had come and in which she returned that wheresoever she had
found an asylum it lay out across the plains and not wishing to be
discovered by the girl he had not cared to venture into the open after
her. It would do as well to keep in touch with the young man, and that
was precisely what he intended doing.

To you or me the possibility of locating the Hon. Morison in the jungle
after having permitted him to get such a considerable start might have
seemed remote; but to Korak it was not at all so. He guessed that the
white man would return to his camp; but should he have done otherwise
it would be a simple matter to The Killer to trail a mounted man
accompanied by another on foot. Days might pass and still such a spoor
would be sufficiently plain to lead Korak unfalteringly to its end;
while a matter of a few hours only left it as clear to him as though
the makers themselves were still in plain sight.

And so it came that a few minutes after the Hon. Morison Baynes entered
the camp to be greeted by Hanson, Korak slipped noiselessly into a
near-by tree. There he lay until late afternoon and still the young
Englishman made no move to leave camp. Korak wondered if Meriem were
coming there. A little later Hanson and one of his black boys rode out
of camp. Korak merely noted the fact. He was not particularly
interested in what any other member of the company than the young
Englishman