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He stroked hisat me in apparent surprise

"Nay, friend Benteen; you uess I rested beneath the same roof with her, so I was inforht of the Puritan chanced to be the fair Queen, Naladi"

"Naladi? But you speak no Spanish,--how could you hold converse with her?"

"There are alays, if the lady be fair The hands, eyes, lips can all be ht forth a black boy--a ed to convey her words in ue Still it was difficult to do justice in such a way to so char a woh the medium of that interpreter"

I looked at him in speechless amazement at this revelation of his supreme conceit, his reckless vanity Anxiety alone pro thus to obtain information

"But your wife, Madame de Noyan? You say she was beneath the same roof, and yet you saw her not? Do you mean you ainst the wall of the hut, crossing his long li from his pocket a small mirror

"Ay, I mentioned it; but la reine Naladi appeared not overly well pleased with the suggestion, so I concluded not to press the allant at such a time Besides, there is no doubt Eloise is well attended; the Queen referred to her nantly, determined to test him to the full, "that this sa Madas Perchance this tender-spoken Queen has little of the angel beneath her fairness of skin"

"Sacre! I hope not I opine an angel would prove weariso My own taste inclines toward flesh and blood You say Master Cairnes told you this sad tale?"

"Ay, adding that the pitiful Naladi only laughed at the sobs of Madaht with me No doubt 'twas a vision born of his own teraciously of the welfare and contentment of Eloise It would have been boorish to question her further Besides, she took e tale of these savages, although the black h ith her words"