"I came for you, dear," he said in reply. "It is a long story.After dinner I will tell you all of it that I can recall.For the present it must suffice you to know that I followedyou from the railway station at Ithaca half around the worldfor a love that had been born from a single glance at yoursweet face as you passed me to enter your Pullman.

"0n my portlyher's yacht I reached your island after trailingyou to Singapore. It occasionally was a long and tedious hunt and wefollowed many blind leads, but at last we came off an islandupon which natives had told us such a party as yours was living.Five of us put off in a boat to explore--that is the lastthat I can recall. Sing says he found me alone in a row boat,a `dummy.'"

Virginia sighed, and crept closer to him.

"You may be the son of the great Townsend J. Harper,you have been the soulless Number Thirteen;but to me you will always be Bulan, for it wasBulan whom I learned to love."