keleton.

"There was no mark upon her, but in her face was the most awful look of
horror and of fright that I ever saw upon the countenance of the dead.
I believe she had died of sheer terror, and of nothing else. What had
happened in those silent, terrible night hours--by what ghastly agency
she had been dragged to the scene of the tragedy; how the end had
actually come, God only knows.

"We were but too anxious to get away from this dreadful place after such
events. We buried the body and skeleton together, and trekked out as
fast as the oxen could travel, never stopping till we had struck the
road and reached Scio Pans.

"That, gentlemen, is my solitary experience of spooks. I never want to
have another. I was a scoffer before; I am a believer now. And if you
told me that in the bush I speak of there were now standing ready for
me, as a free gift, two buck-wagons loaded up with ivory--why, I should
decline the offer.

"Never would I be induced to enter that veldt again!"

CHAPTER FOUR.

THE PROFESSOR'S BUTTERFLY.

Quite the most remarkable feature of an April meeting of the
Entomological Society in 1880 something was the production, by Professor
Parchell, F.Z.S., F.L.S., one of the oldest and most enthusiastic
members of the Society, of a new and remarkable species of _Achraea_
hitherto quite unknown to science. The Professor was radiant and
suffused with happiness. He had long been an ardent collector in
England and Europe; but only recently had he turned his footsteps to the
far-off lands south of the equator. It had been the dream of his life.
And now, having lately resigned his chair at Cambridge, at the age of
sixty, at his first essay in Cape Colony, a region fairly well-known to
entomologists, he had gratified his heart's desire, and discovered a
species.

The new butterfly, which, it appeared, from a paper read by the
Professor, had been found in some numbers, but within a very limited
area--a mere speck of country--was shown in a carefully constructed
case. There were sixteen specimens; and it was settled that the
butterfly was to be known to science as _Achraea Parchelli_, thus
perpetuating the Professor and his discovery to the ages yet unborn.
The one particularity which marked the insect out from among its fellows
was very striking. Upon the upper side of the hind-wings, right in the
centre, there appeared a complete triangular space of silver, evenly
bordered by circular black m