ed out,--

"Only my gammon, old chap. I'm as proud of you as any of 'em, and I
only wish now that we were two great gals."

"Why?" cried Mark, wonderingly, as he caught the hands extended to him
by his friend.

"Because then I could hug you. But I can't: it would be so Frenchy."

"Fists'll do," said Mark, gripping Bob's fingers with all his might.

"Yes, and we're to stick to each other always."

"Always."

"Through thick and thin."

"Through thick and thin."

"Chums to the end."

"To the very end, Bob."

"Yah!" roared the latter, angrily, as he picked up a bread tray to throw
at a head he had seen through his dim eyes watching them intently, "How
dare you sneak in, sir to watch what's going on? Why, I thought it was
one of the men. Come here and stand on your head, ugly. You can't tell
tales of how stupid and choky I've been."

The chimpanzee came forward out of the semi-darkness, and squatted down
to have its ears pulled; while, as soon as he grew more calm, and his
heart beat regularly once again, Mark sat down to pen a long, long
letter to that best of places--his far-off home.

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