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Rh countries alike, at a rate that is causing serious alarm to many of our ablest politicians. However, I notice that our friends are making preparations to leave, and perhaps we had better return."

"Yes," she replied, "if you do not wish to make the Poroporia your romantic home."

When we arrived at our camp, we found nearly every one ready; so Alvarez joined those friends with whom she came, and I commenced my return journey in company with Fudelora and the others of our party. Having paid little or no attention to this young lady during our stay at the valley, I naturally expected that she might not be inclined to feel so favourably towards me as she had formerly done. Indeed, I felt myself culpable for my negligence. However, to my surprise, I found that it did not make the slightest difference in her behaviour, for she was just as jovial and affable as before.

I now began to discover that jealousy was not one of the traits of character in the Neuroomian women, and to question if it existed among them at all. Hitherto I had seen no indication of it, and the inference from this was that the men could not be influenced by this ignominious passion. As for myself, I knew that it was one of my