_little_ lame, though. In a day or two I
take ship for America and so back to school, as thou heardst His
Highness, my father, plan that last night. Close the house, and go
thou to the lodge. Keep all the servants who have served my father for
more than ten years and pay them from the money I shall send thee each
month. And be very good to Maratha, for I shall come back some day,
and she must not be too old or too lame to take care of me.

Good-bye, Maratha. I am always
Thy boy,
ZAIDOS.

Zaidos sealed the letters and sent them off with a sigh of relief. He
had now but one cause of worry. He had promised to write to Helen's
sister, and he didn't know what to say! He forgot the fact that he
would not have to write the letter until he reached America. But at
last he forgot even that when the parting came.

Helen tore herself away from Tony and went down to London to see him
off; and Jack went rushing around making all sorts of work for himself.
They were early at the pier, and, after Zaidos' baggage was settled in
his stateroom, the three people sauntered back to the dock for the half
hour that remained before the first warning call. Three familiar
figures came down, looking here and there. Helen saw them and
exclaimed, "Why, there's father, and mother, and Alice!"

And sure as fate it was! The rector had had to take the next train for
London most unexpectedly, and so thought he would bring his wife and
daughter to join in the leave-takings.

So Zaidos had quite a little group of people waving him good-bye as the
ship went slowly out into the west. But the gaze that held him longest
and the face he saw the last was not Helen's!

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