Damasi looked at her keenly. “Perhaps that is best,” he admitted. “But I don’t think Mdingi will bring back a greater story, no matter how many hunts he goes on.”

“Oh, it was wonderful!” Nomusa cried. “It is true that nothing could be more exciting than that elephant hunt.”

The fire was dying down, but its flames still illumined Nomusa’s small, dark, eager face. Damasi looked at her in silence. He was thinking that life would always be interesting and exciting to Nomusa.

This book was set in 14 point Baskerville type on the Fotosetter at Advance Lithographing Company, Chicago. It was lithographed on a Warren’s Olde Style Antique Wove sheet at Advance Lithographing Company, and bound in Bancroft Leaf Rust Natural Finish cloth at John F. Cuneo Company, Chicago.

DESIGNED BY STANFORD W. WILLIAMSON

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