"It's Bungloore--First Turning to the Right--At the End of the passage." Bungloore--near Ghouli Pass--in the Jungle! I knew the place, a spot of dank pestilence and mystery.

"You never could have gone there," I said.
"You do not know WHAT I could do for a FRIEND," she said sweetly, veiling her eyes in demure significance.
"Oh, come off the roof!" I said bluntly.
She could be obedient when it was necessary.

She came off.

Not without her revenge.

"Try to remember you are not at school with the Stalkies," she said, and turned away.
I went to Bungloore,--not on her account, but my own.