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 deer astray in a royal city. Sentul, moreover, was changed in her sight. While he had lived among her people as one of themselves, he had seemed to her to be merely a superior sort of Sâkai. Now she realized, seeing him in his proper environment, that he was, in truth, a Malay-a man of the dominant, foreign race which, from time imeniorial, had enslaved her people; and at that thought her spirit sank. Pur- suit. which she had feared during the earlier hours of the night, became now for her a hope. It meant, in spite of the very workmanlike whipping which would accompany recapture, a possibility of deliverance- escape from this strangers' land, and a return to the peaceful forest she had so foolishly quitted. But in her eyes the prospect was infinitely remote. She knew how hearty was the fear with which hier people regarded the Malays; how averse they were from being lured out of the jungles with which they were familiar; and Sentul, who had acquired a fairly intimate knowledge of the ways and character of the Sâkai, fully shared her conviction that he and the girl he had abducted were now out of the reach of the tribesmen.

Accordingly Chêp and her lover halted at the latter's village, and took up their abode in his house. Of that homecoming I possess no details. Sentul's Malay wife, who was the mother of his children. must have regarded the new importation from up river with peculiar disfavour. A co-wife is always a disagreeable accretion, but when she chances to belong to the despised Sâkai race, the natural dis-