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I liftedlanced curiously around our prison-house In the centre was the blazing log, the sole bit of colorupon either side were the ures of four priests, robed fro flame Their lips muttered in monotonous chant a weird incantation which sent to h above the altar, blackened by the constantly ascending cloud of se of wood, hideous in disfigure to float upon outspread wings, and gloating down upon us through eyes glittering ominously in the fire sheen At either extremity of the apartment, where I supposed were the entrance and exit previously noted, stood those savages releahtest h they longed for soe, cruel, devilish, exhibiting within its gloomy outlines s heavily against a s head upon one hand as he peered at me from beneath thatched brows

"You have a white face, Master Benteen," he ventured, wondrously soft spoken for hi and at peace with God, the body will mend itself"

"The heart has never yet failedthat he would like to hear hearty English words again "I alad to behold you safely recovered, friend; that was a hard crack they landed on your skull"

"'T is not the will of the Alnominiously perish at the hands of the heathen," he responded in his old manner, and as his voice roared out, not unlike a clap of thunder in that silence, I observed how the savages about us started "Again, and yet again hath He miraculously delivered his servant from the mouth of the lion Surely He must yet have labor forunto these children of A unto them?"

"Ay, why not? Inspired thereunto by the Spirit, I have already sought serious converse with yonder priest of Baal, kneeling at this side of that accursed shrine of idolatry Yet so wedded is he to idols of wood and stone, he ible speech, and when I laid hand upon hirievously thrust me with a spear But I retain faith that the Lord, in His own time, will open up a way unto their rebellious and sinful hearts"