wled back to her.
She stared at him vacantly and said something about Jane Beach. Then he
knew that she was wandering. There was nothing to be done. What could be
done in that wilderness with a woman in delirium, except wait for death?

Accordingly Leonard and Otter waited for some hours. Then the dwarf,
who was in far the best condition of the three, took the spear--Olfan's
gift--and said that he would go and seek for food, since their store was
exhausted. Leonard nodded, though he knew that there was little chance
of a man armed with a spear alone being able to kill game, and Otter
went.

Towards evening he returned, reporting that he had seen plenty of buck,
but could not get near them, which was just what his master expected.
That night they passed hungry, by turns watching Juanna, who was still
delirious. At dawn Otter started out again, leaving Leonard, who had
been unable to sleep as on the previous night, crouched at Juanna's
side, his face buried in his hands.

Before noon Leonard chanced to look up, and saw the dwarf reeling
towards him, for he also was faint with want of food. Indeed his great
head and almost naked body, through the skin of which the misshapen
bones seemed to start in every direction, presented so curious a
spectacle that his master, whose brain was shaken by weakness, began to
laugh.

"Don't laugh, Baas," gasped the dwarf; "either I am mad, or we are
saved."

"Then I think that you must be mad, Otter, for we shall take a deal
of saving," he answered wearily, for he had ceased to believe in good
fortune. "What is it?"

"This, Baas. There is a white man coming this way and more than a
hundred servants with him; they are marching up the mountain slope."

"You are certainly mad, Otter," Leonard replied. "What in the names of
Jal and Aca is a white man doing here? I am the only one of that species
who have been fool enough to penetrate these regions, I and Francisco,"
and he shut his eyes and dozed off.

Otter looked at him for a while, then he tapped his forehead
significantly and started down the slope again. An hour later, Leonard,
still dozing, was awakened by a sound of many voices, and by a hand that
shook him not too gently.

"Awake, Baas," said the dwarf, for the hand was his; "I have caught the
white man and brought him here."

Leonard staggered to his feet and saw before him, surrounded by
gun-bearers and other attendants, an English gentleman, rather under
than over middl