Then a voice replied, so low that he could with difficulty hear it at all.

Its strength increased, however, and at last it broke forth in deep bass tones.
Henry sprang up and threw on his clothes.

As he was thus engaged the front door of the opened, and the speakers went out.

A few seconds sufficed for the youth to finish dressing him; then, seizing a pistol, he hurried out of the house.

Looking quickly round, he just caught sight of the skirts of a woman's dress as they disappeared through the doorway of a hut which had been formerly inhabited by a poor native, who had subsisted on the widow's bounty until he died.