ite a mania with my host.
I thought it best to let him grumble his fill, and then endeavoured
to thank him for his great kindness.

"'Don't say another word,' he interrupted. 'I owe ye some reparation
for being mixed up in this at all. It's a serious matter, mark ye,
for a respectable clerk like myself to be aiding and abetting in this
mad chase; and, to tell the truth, Trenoweth, I took a fancy to ye
when first I set eyes on your face, and--Don't say another word, I'll
ask ye.'

"My friend's eyes were full of tears. I arose, shook him silently by
the hand, and went to my room.

"Nov. 26th.--I am off. I write this in my cabin, alone--Colliver
having had another assigned to him by Mr. Sanderson's express wish.
He saw Colliver for the first time to-day on the quay, and drew me
aside at the last moment to warn me against 'that fellow with the
devilish eyes.' As I stood on deck and watched his stiff little
figure waving me farewell until it melted into the crowd, and Bombay
sank behind me as the city of a dream, I wondered with sadness on the
little chance we had of ever meeting on this earth again. Colliver's
voice at my elbow aroused me.

"'Odd man, that friend of yours--made up of emotion, and afraid of
his life to show it. Has he done you a favour?'

"'He has,' I replied, 'as great a favour as one man can do for
another.'

"'Ah,' said he, 'I thought as much. That's why he is so full of
gratitude.'

"Dec. 6th.--Never shall I forget the dawn out of which Ceylon, the
land of my promise, arose into view. I was early on deck to catch
the first sight of land. Very slowly, as I stood gazing into the
east, the pitch-black darkness turned to a pale grey, and discovered
a long, narrow streak, shaped like the shields one sees in Bible
prints, and rising to a point in the centre. Then, as it seemed to
me, in a moment, the sun was up and as if by magic the shield had
changed into a coast fringed with palms and swelling upwards in green
and gradual slopes to a chain of mighty hills. Around these some
light, fleecy clouds had gathered, but sea and coast were radiant
with summer. So clear was the air that I could distinguish the red
sand of the beaches and the white trunks of the palms that crowded to
the shore; and then before us arose Colombo, its white houses
gleaming out one by one.

"The sun was high by the time our pilot came on board, and as we
entered the harbour the town lay deep in the stillness of th