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? ? ? ? "I am going back with Bwana," she announced.

? ? ? ? The black shook his head. "No!" he announced. "Bwana says I take you home. So I take you home."

? ? ? ? "You refuse to let me go?" asked the girl.

? ? ? ? The black nodded, and fell to the rear where he might better watch her. Meriem half smiled. Presently her horse passed beneath a low-hanging branch, and the black headman found himself gazing at the girl's empty saddle. He ran forward to the tree into which she had disappeared. He could see nothing of her. He called; but there was no response, unless it might have been a low, taunting laugh far to the right. He sent his men into the jungle to search for her; but they came back empty handed. After a while he resumed his march toward the farm, for Baynes, by this time, was delirious with fever.

? ? ? ? Meriem raced straight back toward the point she imagined Tantor would make for--a point where she knew the elephants often gathered deep in the forest due east of The Sheik's village.


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