ong the trees."

The Doctor's wife gave a slight shiver as a faint waft of wind came
sweeping over the tops of the forest trees, and she drew her scarf
lightly over her head and shoulders as she quickened her steps to return
to the bungalow. "It's not cold," she said half uneasily, "and yet I
shivered. It's as if the nervous feeling were coming back. Two hours!
Well, they will soon slip by."

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

A GREAT HORROR.

Those two hours did soon slip away, and after assuring herself by the
clock that the time had really fled, Mrs Morley went and stood in the
veranda, gazing out in the full expectation of seeing those for whom she
waited coming up from the direction of the river.

The night was glorious. The nearly full moon was silvering the tops of
the trees and casting deep, black shadows on the ground. Here and there
in the patches of thick shrubbery that had been planted to take off the
harsh formality surrounding the parade, there were faint, twinkling
sparks that gave a suggestion of how beautiful the river-sides must be
where the lights of the curious insects flashed and died out and lit up
again in full force; and for some minutes Mrs Morley stood breathing in
the sweet, moist perfume of the many night blooms which floated on the
air.

"It is very, very beautiful," she sighed, "but not like home. One tries
to get used to it, and does for a time; but there is always that strange
feeling of insecurity which will suggest what might happen--we so few,
the people here so many, and always looking upon us as infidel intruders
who have forced themselves up here to make a home in their very midst.
I am too impatient," she added, with a sigh, as she turned to walk to
and fro in the veranda.

"I am too impatient," she repeated. "On such a beautiful night they
would easily be tempted to go a little farther up the river than they
intended, and they would tell the men to let the boat float gently back
with the stream. They have tired the men, perhaps, and have told them
to leave the boat to itself. Yes, a lovely night."

She went in, with a sigh, to speak to her two native servants and tell
them that they need not stay up; but she found her care unnecessary, for
they were already asleep. Then, obeying her next impulse, she woke
them, telling one to wait and the other to walk with her as far as the
river-side.

Here she stood with the woman, watching and trying to pierce the soft,
grey mist tha