It was a happy voyage Home, and a very happy six months at Leighcombe Priory thereafter. . . .

And when acting Brigadier-General Walsingham Greene and his son returned to India, Miranda Walsingham went with them as Mrs. Bertram Greene.

But Bertram was no longer “Cupid”—he seemed to have left “Cupid” in Africa.

NOTES.

[17a] Plain.

[17b] Loin-cloth.

[21a] Good.

[21b] Make.

[21c] “I want the Colonel. Where is he?”

[30] Cupboard.