PERFIDY
On the that Bulan set out with his three from the long-house in which they had the night, Professor Maxon's party was up the river, with by the reports of that the white girl had been in a prahu.
In this to Professor Maxon, Horn it appear that the girl was in the hands of Number Thirteen, or Bulan, as they had now come to call him to the natives' use of that name in speaking of the strange, and white who had their land.
At the last long-house the gorge, the of which had Virginia Maxon's from the of Ninaka and Barunda, the party was to stop to a attack of which had the professor. Here they a woman who had a to relate of a she had that very morning.
It that she had been in a little which out of the at the of the long-house when her attention was by the of an animal through the a yards above her. As she looked she saw a MIAS PAPPAN the stream, in his arms the dead, or of a white-skinned girl with hair.
Her of the MIAS PAPPAN was such as to Horn that she might have Number Three Virginia Maxon, although he not the idea with the that the two Dyaks had told him of all of Bulan's in the jungle.
Of it was possible that they might have their way over land to this point, but it credible—and then, how they have come into of Virginia Maxon, every report this last was still in the hands of Ninaka and Barunda. There was always the possibility that the had to him, and the more he questioned the Dyak woman the more he that this was the fact.
The outcome of it was that Horn to make an attempt to the of the that the woman had seen, and with this plan in view Muda Saffir to with the of the long-house at which they then were to him with and an of warriors, promising them some should they be successful in Bulan and his pack.
Professor Maxon was too to the expedition, and Horn set out alone with his Dyak allies. For a time after they Sing Lee and upon the of the long-house. He Horn, and from of his own to him. The of the party was discernible, and the Chinaman had no in them, so that they had gone no great way he came of them. Always just to be out of sight, he with the little as it through the of the morning, until a little after he was by the of a woman in distress, and the of a man.
The voices came from a point in the a little to his right and him, and without waiting for the to return, or to if they had the cries, Sing ran in the direction of the alarm. For a time he saw nothing, but was by the of and the of ahead, where the of the were moving through the jungle.
Presently a upon his vision. It was the Number Three in of a female outang, and an later he saw Number Twelve and Number Ten in with two males, while he the voice of a man to some one as he through the jungle. It was in this last event that Sing's centered, for he was sure that he the voice as that of Bulan, while the for help which he had had been in a woman's voice, and Sing that its author be none other than Virginia Maxon.
Those he were moving through the which was now more and more open, but the Chinaman was no runner, and it was not long he of the object of his pursuit.
His was of Bulan, two that and at him as he and at his with his whip. Just in of the was another in his arms the of Virginia Maxon who had at the response to her for help. Sing was with a but he not attempt to use it for that he might either Bulan or the girl, and so he was to but a of what ensued.
Bulan, the the two were upon him, was upon the that was by the weight of the he in his huge, arms. As they came into a natural in the the to see his almost upon him, and with an angry to meet the charge.
In another Bulan and the three were and about the ground, a of and blood from which rose and angry and growls, while Virginia Maxon upon the where her had her.
Sing was about to and her up, when he saw Horn and his Dyaks into the clearing, to which they had been by the of the and the encounter. The doctor at the that met his eyes—the of the girl and the man with three bulls.
Then he up Virginia Maxon, and with a to his Dyaks, who were at the of the white of they had such terrible stories, and in the direction from which they had come, the man to what must be a and death.
Sing Lee was at the of the act. To Bulan alone was the entire of having Professor Maxon's daughter, and yet in the very presence of his self-sacrificing and Horn had him without making the least attempt to him. But the old Chinaman was of different metal, and had started to Bulan when a hand upon his shoulder. Looking around he saw the of Number Ten into his. The of the were with rage. He had been and by the with which he had fought, and though he had overcome and killed the beast, a female which he had had him. In a of and blood by his wounds, and the taste of warm blood which still his and face, he had been the female when he upon the Sing.
With a he the Chinaman as though to him in two, but Sing was not at all to give up his life without a struggle, and Number Ten was quick to learn that no moved that wrinkled, yellow hide.
There could, however, have been but one outcome to the had Sing not been with a revolver, though it was he it into play upon the great thing that and him about as though he had been a in the mouth of a terrier. But there was the report of a firearm, and another of Professor Maxon's into the from which he had it.
Then Sing his attention to Bulan and his three assailants, but, for the of a upon the spot where he had last the four struggling, there was no either of the white man or his antagonists; nor, though he attentively, he catch the the other than the of the and the of the that among the about him.
For an hour he in every direction, but finally, that he might in the of the he his toward the river and the long-house that his party.
Here he Professor Maxon much improved—the safe return of Virginia having as a upon him. The girl and her father sat with Horn upon the of the long-house as Sing up the that to it from the ground. At of Sing's old Virginia Maxon to her and ran to him, for she had been very of the and Chinaman of she had so much the months of her the campong.
"Oh, Sing," she cried, "where have you been? We were all so to think that no sooner was one of us than another lost."
"Sing walk, Linee, all," said the Chinaman. "Velly see Linee black 'gain," and that was all that Sing Lee had to say of the through which he had just passed, and the that he had seen.
Again and again the girl and Horn the of the day, the being to repeat all that had from the moment that he had Virginia's cry, though it was that he only to speak of his part in her under the most urging. Very modesty, Sing when he had the doctor's of the affair.
"You see," said Horn, "when I the spot Number Three, the that you was an ape, had just you over to Number Thirteen, or, as the now call him, Bulan. You were then in a faint, and when I Bulan he you to himself. I had a from him after the wild the have been telling of his ferocity, but it was soon that he is an coward, for I did not have to fire my revolver—a with the of it upon his sent him into the with his pack at his heels."
"How it is, my dear doctor," said Professor Maxon, "that you were to think of the into the jungle. But for that Virginia would still be in his and by this time he would have been all of capture. How can we you, dear friend?"
"That you were to when we upon the search for your daughter," Horn.
"Just so, just so," said the professor, but a of trouble the of his face, and a moment later he arose, saying that he weak and and would go to his sleeping room and for a while. The was that Professor Maxon the promise he had Horn relative to his daughter.
Once he had plans for her marriage only to them later; he that he had no mistake this time, but he that it had been to Virginia to promise her to his without her consent. Yet a promise was a promise, and, again, was it not true that but for Horn she would have been or than in a time had she not been from the of the Bulan? Thus did the old man his action, and the that he had to Virginia to Horn should she, from some motive, demur. Yet he that the girl would make it easy, by the man who had saved her life.
Left alone, or as he alone, with the girl in the of the evening, Horn the moment for his suit. He did not the about them as of to consider, since they would not the language in which he Virginia, and in the he failed to note that Sing with the Dyaks, close them.
"Virginia," he commenced, after an of silence, "often have I the nearest to my heart, yet have you me much encouragement. Can you not for the man who would give his life for you, to permit you to make him the man in the world? I do not ask for all your love at first—that will come later. Just give me the right to and protect you. Say that you will be my wife, Virginia, and we need have no more that the of your father's mind can again your life or your as they have in the past."
"I that I you my life," the girl in a voice, "and while I am now positive that my father has his sanity, and looks with as great upon the terrible he planned for me as I myself, I cannot the of which to you.
"At the same time I do not wish to be the means of making you unhappy, as surely would be the result were I to you without love. Let us wait until I know myself better. Though you have spoken to me of the before, I now that I have any to or not I can love you. There is time we civilization, if we are to do so at all. Will you not be as as you are brave, and give me a days I must make you a final answer?"
With Professor Maxon's promise to his success Horn was very and in to the girl's wishes. The girl for her part not put from her mind the she had when she that her was Horn, and not the she had been positive was in close of her abductors.
When Number Thirteen had been mentioned she had always pictured him as a monster, to the that had her in the the that day she had the stranger, of she obtain no either from her father or Horn. When she had that the same man had been at the of her father's in an attempt to her, Horn and Professor Maxon at the idea, until at last she was that the and the had to in her brain the of one who was by memory to another time of and despair.
Virginia not why it was that the of the in itself in her memory. That the man was good looking was undeniable, but she had many good looking men, was she to beauty. No had passed them on the occasion of their meeting, so it have been nothing that he said which the memory of him to so in her mind.
What was it then? Was it the memory of the moments that she had in his arms—was it the of the sweet, warm that had her as his had hers upon his face?
The thing was tantalizing—it was annoying. The girl in at the very that she so to the memory of a total stranger, and—still humiliation—long in the of her to see him again.
She was angry with herself, but the more she to the who had come into her life for so an instant, the more she upon his identity and the that had him to their little, only to him away again as as he had come, the less was the with which she looked upon the of Doctor Horn.
Von Horn had left her, and to the river. Finally Virginia to the which had been spread for her in one of the sleeping rooms of the long-house. As she passed a group of one of the number and approached her, and as she halted, in fright, a low voice whispered:
"Lookee out, Linee, Hornee man."
"Why, Sing!" Virginia. "What in the world do you by saying such a thing as that?"
"Never mind, Linee; you always good to old Sing. Sing no see you sadee. Dloctor Hornee man, allee," and without another word the Chinaman and walked away.
