Run away, people of Fung, run away!' "Barung the Sultan tear his clothes too, and say--'Run away, Fung,' and my half-wife, she tear _her_ clothes and say nothing, but run like antelope.

So they all run toward east, where great river is, and leave me alone.

Then I get up and run too--toward west, for I know from Black Windows," and he pointed to Higgs, "when we shut up together in belly of god before he let down to lions, what all this game mean, and therefore not frightened.

Well, I run, meeting no one in night, till I come to pass, run up it, and find guards, to whom I tell story, so they not kill me, but let me through, and at last I come here, quite safe, without Fung wife, thank God, and that end of tale." "I am afraid you are wrong there, my boy," I said, "out of the frying-pan into the fire, that's all." "Out of frying-pan into fire," he repeated.

"Not understand; father must remember I only little fellow when Khalifa's people take me, and since then speak no English till I meet Black Windows.