al. Without the sale of these jewels he could not
attempt the rescue of the will at all. He was surprised at their value,
for he got more for them than he expected, and it seemed a great risk to
have left them in the secret drawer of his desk all this time. You may
be sure he did not forget the signet-ring and the thin silver case,
these being taken with him as before.

The trip to Cairo was uneventful, and he passed the time in improving
his Arabic, by the aid of a grammar, dictionary, and Koran. As soon as
he had delivered his cargo, and called upon the member of the firm who
resided out there, who was as kind and cordial as Mr Williams, he
started up the Nile.

The traveller who does that, proposing to do more than visit a pyramid
or two, requires a good deal of patience; and so would a reader if the
ordinary routine of travel were to be recorded. Suffice it then to say
that Harry voyaged up the Nile to Korosko, and there joined a caravan
across the desert to Abu Hamed, from which place he got passage again on
board a diabeheeh, which carried him to Berber.

With what excitement he beheld the white houses, the minarets, the palm-
trees, grow nearer and nearer! Within those walls, as he hoped, Daireh
was living. If so, and he could find him, and get the will, the object
of his journey would be accomplished.

For he had laid his plans. Armed with a letter he had got for the
Governor, he would find no difficulty in having his man seized
unexpectedly before he would have time to make away with the document,
and there was little doubt means would be found to make him give it up.

Confidence, which had fluctuated, revived at the sight of the place, and
when at length he was landed, Harry walked through the bazaars,
expecting every man he met to be the one he was in search of. After
many disappointments he recognised himself for an idiot, and calmed
down.

How should he set to work in a methodical manner?--that was the point.
The letter to the Pasha denounced Daireh as a criminal, and therefore if
he employed his officers to make search for him the fact might get
about, and Daireh, hearing of it, might hide, escape, or at any rate get
rid of all incriminatory documents. It was more prudent, perhaps, to
pretend to have business with him, and make inquiry in the bazaars.

The one advantage of the tedium of his journey was that Harry had
acquired much more fluency by constant practice in speaking the
language