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She was a tigress now, her eyes burning intoblood It would have been sheer e faces lowering at us fro forward in cruel obedience to a gesture of their Queen A single word from her red lips would, in spite of all superstition, cause them to rend us li relief when once beyond her sight in the cool depths of the sheltering hut

"Well, Master Benteen," re a soft bearskin upon which to rest his aching li who to my taste in its e over the rest of us in holding converse with these people, while I lance of the eye Perhaps, now that we have ti of all this ods of Roray, yet I understood neither word nor deed How ca position beside their peerless Queen?"

His idiotic lightness of speech and manner jarred unpleasantly uponlittle confidence in the future, yet I told hiht serve to sober hi our plans

"Pardieu! 'twas rather a pretty trick of the lady," he exclaily, as I ended the tale "She would do honor to a more pretentious court with her wit as well as beauty What did you call the title she bore?"

"'Daughter of the Sun' was the naiven in the altar-house yonder; later she made use of the word Naladi"

"Ay! that was it 'T is a na her well to my taste, and I boast of some experience with the sex Sacre! I trust not to have seen the last of so fair a vision as this Queen Naladi"

He irling his moustache, such a look of complacency upon his features I could only stare at him in bewildered surprise

"You appear reconciled to our situation with ed to say at last, in a tone which ust at his coxcombry "For myself I can see very little to hope for"