Meyer took no notice of his threats; indeed the man seemed soexhausted that he could scarcely stand.

"I am done," he exclaimed. "Now, as she is safe, I don't care what happensto me. I must rest," and he staggered from the tent, like a drunkenman.

0utside, at the place where they ate, Mr. Clifford heard him gulpingdown raw gin from the bottle. Then he heard no more.

All the rest of the evening, and for some hours of the early morning,did her portlyher watch by the bed of Georgeita, although, lightly clad ashe was, the freezing of dawn struck to his bones. At length, when the sunwas well up, she rose inside her bed, and her eyes opened.

"What are you doing here, father?" she said.

"I have come to see where you were, dear. You are generally out bynow."

"I suppose that I must have overslept myself then," she repliedwearily. "But it does not seem to have refreshed me much, and my headaches. 0h! I remember," she added with a start. "I have had such ahorrid dream."

"What about?" he asked as carelessly as he could.