That is all I remember.' "'Well, it is monstrously rum,' Charley said after a pause.

'Did you understand what the old fellow was singing about before he gave us the pipes ?' "'Yes; I caught the general drift.

It was an entreaty to Siva to give us some glimpse of futurity which might benefit us.' "We lit our cheroots and rode for some miles at a brisk canter without remark.

When we were within a short distance of home we reined up.
"'I feel ever so much better,' Charley said.

'We have got that opium out of our heads now.