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Show PRINCESS MARY'S GIFT BOOK " A very little might do it." " No. no. It's all very well here but it would sound just awful if ever it. got as far as Fleet Street. But, I sir " he whispered, " we might " iten him a hit. There's no harm in that. " No. sir." "Tell them to undo the man‘. ‘alaheeah. Order them to put. a ho shoe. in the tire and make. it. -hot." The prisoner watched the prouedings with an air which had mo )t' amusement than of uneasine. . He. never wineed as the hlael' . rezuit approached with the glowing shoe held upon two ha , ' \Yill you _, ' ' '. , Iy. The prisoner smiled gently and stroked his hea ‘l "( h, ehuek the internal thinU‘ aw: i ' - jllllllllllg up in ap ' )n. ' no use t1 ' to hunt the fell lIe knov ' we wont do it But I mm. and I log him, and ' u can tell him from me that ' . iasn‘t found his tongue hy to‘~mr.n‘r0 ' morning I‘ll take tllC skin oll' his ha C as sure as my names .loy Have you said all that ? " " Y s. bll. " \Vell, you can sleep 11] it on beauty, and a may it give you!" He adjourned the Court, and he pr stner, as imperturlmhle as ever, was led aw; y by the. guard to hi supper of rice and water. Hilary Joyce was a lcind»h n‘ted man, and his own sleep was considerably disturbed by the prospeet of the punislnnent which he must inflict next day. He had hopes that the mere ig‘ht of the hour- b- h and the thongs might prerril over his pr 7 :1‘ And then, P, till, he thought how shockingr it would be if the man prove be real‘ duml) alter all. The pos' hilily shook him so that he had almost determined by daybreak that he would send the stranger 011 unhurt to Assouan. And ~yet what a tame conclusion it would he to the incident! He lay upon his angareeb still debating it when the question suddenly and eli‘eelively settled itself. Ali VMahomet rushed into his tent. "1'," he eri , "the prisoner is gone ! " wone!" "1 V sir. and your own 1) 't. riding camel as well. 'here is a slit cut in the tent, and he got a ay unseen in the e: The Bim ashi acted with all energry. - 1y rode along every trael" scouts e amined the soft sand of the wadys for signs of the '7 e, but no trace was (ii. vered. The man had utterly disappeared. ll "ll ‘1 115 ".V liC‘ill't. l'lilary Joyee wrote an olli al report ol‘ the mat. 1 and lor rded it to Assouan. l e days later there came a curt order mum Ml'm‘vl ll |