“Yes; when I had recovered a little, I went back to the Mubapur Temple,” answered the Colonel; but he was silent for some minutes before he answered the first part of my question.
“In my report to the Government I said that Lieutenant Arthur Stebbins was torn to pieces in the lower passage of a Mubapur Temple by an immense white ape,—but I lied,” he added quietly.
THE FOOL AND HIS JOKE.
THE FOOL AND HIS JOKE.
