of her imprisonment within the campong.

"Oh, Sing," she cried, "where have you been? We were

all so worried to think that no sooner was one of us

rescued than another became lost."

"Sing takee walk, Linee, las all," said the grinning Chinaman.

"Velly glad see Linee black 'gain," and that was all that Sing Lee

had to say of the adventures through which he had just passed,

and the strange sights that he had seen.

Again and again the girl and von Horn narrated the

stirring scenes of the day, the latter being compelled

to repeat all that had transpired from the moment that

he had heard Virginia's cry, though it was apparent

that he only consented to speak of his part in her

rescue under the most considerable urging. Very pretty

modesty, thought Sing when he had heard the doctor's

version of the affair.

"You see," said von Horn, "when I reached the spot

Number Three, the brute that you thought was an ape,

had just turned you over to Number Thirteen, or, as the

natives now call him, Bulan. You were then in a faint,

and when I attacked Bulan he dropped you to defend himself.

I had expected a bitter fight from him after the wild tales

the natives have been telling of his ferocity,

but it was soon evident that he is an arrant coward,

for I did not even have to fire my revolver--

a few thumps with the butt of it upon his brainless

skull sent him howling into the jungle with his pack at his heels."

"How fortunate it is, my dear doctor," said Professor Maxon,

"that you were bright enough to think of trailing the miscreant

into the jungle. But for that Virginia would still be