Two weeks passed away, and happy though he was, Kep was longing for his ship to return in order that he might report what he had found out, and so frustrate the plans of the savage Arab chief.
He watched for her in vain however.
But one evening while alone with his friends, the door was quietly opened, and Bungle himself entered as silently as a gecko lizard.
That he had something important to communicate could, however, be seen in his very look and gesture.
"Hist!" he said, pointing towards the door, which he had carefully closed. "P'haps bad man he follow Bungle."
He spoke in a solemn whisper, and coming nearer to Kep's side, uttered just two words that caused our little hero's heart to rejoice.
"Ship come."
"Truly?"
"Foh true, sah. She dere now."
Kep forgot everything else in his excitement. For the time being even his little Zeena counted for nothing.