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 the child's face. The will power which kept him in his waking hours eager and brave, was relaxed, and one saw more plainly how much he had suffered. Somehow he looked smaller than Siddereticus had remembered him, and very tired and helpless. His hand had loosed its clasp on the amulet and lay limply near it, where it gleamed against the pillow. The young man glanced behind him, and, stooping, kissed the small hand. As he slipped from the cabin. Fen sighed and stirred a little.

"A most singular chap," said Mr. Norvell, when Siddereticus had taken his final departure. He sank into a deck-chair and lit a cigar.

"A most singular chap! What an idea, to be cruising all over creation in that absurd knockabout, with that outlandish Mohammedan servant, or whatever he is. And Thornton, senior, as I remember him,