He brought me a bottle of porter the other day; it cost three shillings, but I never enjoyed anything so much in my life.' "'I can quite believe it,' said Captain Montagu feelingly.

'Your servant must be worth his weight in gold.' "In another minute they were on their way.

The sun was beginning to sink, fortunately; it was not _quite_ so hot as a few hours previously.

But it was quite as dusty, and the walking along a recently and roughly made track, not worthy the name of road, was very tiring.

It was fully five miles to Kadikoi--five miles across a bare, dried-up country, from which all traces of the scanty cultivation it had ever received were fast disappearing under the present state of things.