where he settled permanently. Stas was sent by his father to a
school in Alexandria, where his deeds and adventures were less known.
The children corresponded almost daily, but circumstances combined to
prevent their seeing each other for ten years. The boy, after finishing
school in Egypt, entered the Polytechnic in Zurich, after which, having
secured his diploma, he was engaged in the construction of tunnels in
Switzerland.

When ten years had passed, Pan Tarkowski retired from the service of
the Canal Company, and he and Stas visited their friends in England.
Mr. Rawlinson invited them to his home, near Hampton Court, for the
whole summer. Nell had finished her eighteenth year and had grown into
a maiden as charming as a flower, and Stas became convinced, at the
expense of his own peace, that a man, who had completed twenty-four
years, could nevertheless still think of ladies. He even thought of
beautiful and dear Nell so incessantly that finally he decided to run
away to whatever place his eyes would lead him.

But while in that state of mind, Mr. Rawlinson one day placed both of
his palms on Stas' shoulders and, looking him straight in the eyes,
said with an angelic benignity:

"Tell me, Stas, whether there is a man in the world to whom I could
give my treasure and darling with greater confidence?"

The young couple married and remained in England until Mr. Rawlinson's
death and a year later they started upon a long journey. As they
promised to themselves to visit those localities in which they had
spent their earliest years and afterwards at one time had wandered as
children, they proceeded first of all to Egypt. The state of the Mahdi
and Abdullahi had already been overthrown, and after its fall England,
as Captain Glenn stated, "succeeded." A railroad was built from Cairo
to Khartum. The "sudds," or the Nilotic obstructions of growing water
plants, were cleared so that the young couple could in a comfortable
steamer reach not only Fashoda but the great Lake Victoria Nyanza. From
the city of Florence lying on the shores of that lake they proceeded by
a railroad to Mombasa. Captain Glenn and Doctor Clary had already
removed to Natal, but in Mombasa there lived under the solicitous care
of the local English authorities the King. The giant at once recognized
his former master and mistress and particularly greeted Nell with such
joyful trumpeting that the mangrove trees in the neighborhood shook as
if they were