But it wasn't until our rescue of Jeremy Ross from near Abu Kem, that I ever heard Grim come out openly and admit that he was working to establish Feisul, third son of the King of Mecca, as king of just as many Arabs as might care to have him over them.

Right down to the minute when Grim, Jeremy and I sat down with Ben Saoud the Avenger on a stricken field at Abu Kem, and Grim and Jeremy played their hands so cleverly that the Avenger was made, unwitting guardian of Jeremy's secret gold-mine, and Feisul's open and sworn supporter in the bargain, the heart of Grim's purpose continued to be a mystery even to me; and I have been as intimate with him as any man.

Besides, you fellers agreed that if I shut down the mine at Abu Kem you'd join me and we'd be Grim, Ramsden and Ross.

If we tell him privately about your gold mine at Abu Kem he can laugh at financiers.

Having talked that over pretty steadily most of the way from Abu Kem, it seemed already about as stale and unattractive to him as some of his oldest tricks.

But our friend Narayan Singh was in the hospital, enjoying the wise veteran's prerogative of resting on full pay after his strenuous adventures along with us at Abu Kem.

Half a mo', you chaps; that's my mine at Abu Kem, isn't it?

That yar heat kem out of the bowels of the yearth,kem up like out of a chimbley or a blast, and kep up that yar fire.

That yar heat kem out of the bowels of the yearth,kem up like out of a chimbley or a blast, and kep up that yar fire.

"You know yourself, Dad, it's a blind trail, and as that 'ere constable that kem out here hunting French Pete, couldn't find it, and had to go round by the cañon, like ez not the stranger would lose his way, and have to come back!"

The idea is thenthatSpencer Tuckerwas drownded in that boat; the idea is"his voice was almost lost in a hoarse whisper"that it was no living man that kem to me that night, but a spirit that kem out of the darkness and went back into it!

The idea is thenthatSpencer Tuckerwas drownded in that boat; the idea is"his voice was almost lost in a hoarse whisper"that it was no living man that kem to me that night, but a spirit that kem out of the darkness and went back into it!

"P'raps," said Mr. Nott with a troubled air, "you disremember that when you first kem here you asked me if you could hev that 'er loft that the Frenchman had downstairs.

"I thought you was sorter keen about it when you first kem.

And only jist now ez I kem in I ketched sight of a furrin-lookin' Chinee nigger slinking round the back door of what useter be Ferrers' loft.

But when I kem back the dd skunk had vamosedgot frightened I reckonand wasn't nowhar to be seen.

" "P'r'aps," said Nott, with infinite cunning, "yer don't know the man ez kem into the loft from the alley last nightp'r'aps yer didn't see an airy Frenchman with a dyed mustache, eh?

"I sent him back with a message to the man he kem from," said Nott, winking both his eyes at Renshaw significantly, and making signs behind his daughter's back.

When the sun kem out wid a blink in his oi, an' the belly-band av his new shoot tied round him, there was PORTERS and ATHUS lyin' mixed up wid the brandy-kegs, and

D'ye think I've kem here to be philandhering afther you.