Part 14 (1/1)

For the rest, it is of no public interest, rese as it does the experience of more than one Central African traveller Suffice it to say, that we did, after incredible hardshi+ps and privations, reach the Zambesi, which proved to be about a hundred and seventy miles south of where Billali left us There ere for six e tribe, who believed us to be supernatural beings, chiefly on account of Leo's youthful face and snohite hair Fro the Zambesi, wandered off southwards, where, when on the point of starvation, ere sufficiently fortunate to fall in with a half-cast Portuguese elephant-hunter who had followed a troop of elephants farther inland than he had ever been before This h his assistance we, after innuoa Bay, ed froed to catch one of the stealand Our journey home was a prosperous one, and we set our foot on the quay at Southampton exactly two years froly ridiculous quest, and I norite these last words with Leo leaning over e, the very sao ht of his death, bearing the iron chest with him

And that is the end of this history so far as it concerns science and the outside world What its end will be as regards Leo and uess at But we feel that is not reached yet A story that beganway into the dim and distant future

Is Leo really a reincarnation of the ancient Kallikrates of whoe hereditary resemblance? The reader must form his own opinion on this as on many other matters I have mine, which is that she made no such mistake

Often I sit alone at night, staring with the eyes of thein what shape and forreat drama will be finally developed, and where the scene of its next act will be laid And when that final development ultimately occurs, as I have no doubt it must and will occur, in obedience to a fate that never swerves and a purpose that cannot be altered, ill be the part played therein by that beautiful Egyptian Amenartas, the Princess of the royal race of the Pharaohs, for the love of whom the Priest Kallikrates broke his vows to Isis, and, pursued by the inexorable vengeance of the outraged Goddess, fled down the coast of Libya to meet his doom at Kor?