“That’s what you say.”

“I’se sure.”

A messenger boy attached to the caravanserai came in, and holding up a letter, spoke.

“Harkaway’s friend, Girdwood!” he exclaimed.

“That is me,” replied Harry, who had come down to smoke a cigar.

“The letter is addressed that way.”

“I’ll take it.”

He did so, and opening it, read:

“Dear Old Harry:—I am in a most confounded fix.

“In the kaiaba I met Hunston and Mordecai. They are both my enemies.