The subtler emotions which cannot be translated into words are still to be hinted at by chords and harmonies." "It seems wilder and more savage than ever to-night," remarked the American.

"It gives me the same feeling of pitiless force that the Atlantic does upon a cold, dark, winter day.

Perhaps it is the knowledge that we are right there on the very edge of any kind of law and order.

How far do you suppose that we are from any Dervishes, Colonel Cochrane ?" "Well, on the Arabian side," said the Colonel, "we have the Egyptian fortified camp of Sarras about forty miles to the south of us.

Beyond that are sixty miles of very wild country before you would come to the Dervish post at Akasheh.