They were walking in silence across
! low bushed rolling plain now. Rl
ohenda noticed that Fairways' face
was drawn and white. He looked
very tired.
"How is the man who was hurt by
the rhino?" she asked him haltingly.
"Dead," he replied short l>. "At !*
o'clock this morning.
She fell silent. So that was why
he appeared fatigued. He had been
up all night with the dying man. No
doubt he had conducted the primitive
funeral which, as in ali tropic coun
tries, would take place within a few
hours of the dentin Then, straight
way. without a moment's rest, he
tramped miles across the country In
search of a decamping wife Truly,
i for Fairways, it had been a crow ded
24 hours.
They walked on without any further
word passing between them.
It was n Huick warning from
Jeroge that brought them to a sud
den halt. The native was pointing
agitatedly at a clump of low brushes
not five yards from where they stood.
Three or four tattered rags of gaudy
1 muslin were fluttering front the
! thorny branches and. close by. a
rough hide fashioned native .shoe la l
on the edge of a patch of blaclt
staitied earth.
Their eyes took the objects in. then
went farther to where more sinister
things lav scattered upon the wither
ed grass.
"M.v godfathers!" Fairways' whis
per was barely audible and Riehenda.
standing frozen with horror, could
only stare at one hideous thing which
brought home its grewsome tale to •
her.
