"How?"

"By camel. I had horses and Gungadhura took them all, but his brain
was too sotted to think of camels, and I have camels waiting not many
miles from here! I shall take my horse from your stable and ride for
the camels, bringing them to the house of Mukhum Dass. Let your
wife meet me there one hour before dawn."

"Dick!" said Tess, with her arm around him. "I want to go! I know it
sounds crazy, and absurd, and desperate; but I'm sure it isn't! I want
you to let me go with her."

They reached the house before he answered, he, turning it over and
over in his mind, taking into reckoning a thousand things.

"Well," he said at last, "once in a while there's the strength of a man
about you, Tess. Maybe I'm a lunatic, but have it your own way, girl,
have it your own way!"





Chapter Ten




In odor of sweet sanctity I bloom,