u wake, not
rubbing thy eyes out."

Zaidos was soon standing in a line in the office while the twenty men
in his group answered to name. Then what Zaidos had feared came to
pass. A name was called and no one answered. Again it rang out
sharply. There was a consultation between the two officers at the
desk. The young mountaineer who had led the perilous way through the
chained door was gone! Zaidos, keeping his face as free from interest
and expression as he could, stood stiffly at attention while the count
was made and questions put to the men. As luck would have it, Zaidos
was asked but one thing. Had he seen the fellow on his pallet before
he himself went to bed? He answered honestly that he had. He was
conscious of keen scrutiny from the officers, and knowing of his own
escape and return, felt that he must be looking the picture of guilt.
The truth of the matter was that his military training in school made
him so perfectly at ease and so soldierly in appearance that he was
very noticeable in the line of slipshod, lounging, green recruits.

They were presently ordered to drill, and for two hours went through a
grilling labor with their arms. Again Zaidos' trained muscles served
him well. While he was tired and muscle-sore at the close of the
drill, others were on the point of exhaustion. They were sent back to
their barracks and flung themselves down to rest.

The incident of the young mountaineer seemed closed. He did not
return, nor did the slightest whisper concerning him reach Zaidos.
Four days dragged by. Two days were filled with strenuous drilling.
Twice Zaidos was visited by members of his father's family--devoted old
servants who begged to do something to free him from his present
position, and who questioned him vainly for news of Velo Kupenol. On
the second visit Zaidos decided to entrust the old servant with the
papers which he carried. He opened the flat leather folder in which he
had placed them. They were gone! Zaidos was well aware that the
packet had been on him since the moment he had received it. He could
only think that they had been stolen, while he slept. But why should
any one of the ignorant men about him take papers which could not
concern them and leave untouched the large bills folded in the same
compartment with the papers? He reported his loss. The officers who
had been in charge on that eventful night had been transferred, but the
new Commandant was just and obl