number, but our men had the steadier aim; and the king fought like a
hero, though his hands and feet were swelling painfully.

The fact was that he had eaten some time before his men, and I could not
therefore get the poison completely out of his system. But it was the
arsenic that saved his life. He had at last to come and lie down beside
me. We heard the sound of rapid firing in the distance; and suddenly two
men entered our enclosure, with revolvers in each hand, and shot down
our defenders with an extraordinary quickness of aim. They were Harris
and Lobster.

"Hermann, where are you?" Harris yelled at last, with all his strength,
as he turned and found nothing more to shoot at.

"Here," I replied. "The men you've just killed have been fighting for
me. There has been civil war in the camp."

"Well, we've stamped it out!" said Harris. "What's the matter with the
old scoundrel lying beside you?"

"It's Hadgi Stavros," I said. "He and his men have been eating some
arsenic I had in my collecting case."

My friends managed to carry me down the mountain, and at the first
village we came to they got a carriage and took me to Athens. The
ointment used by Hadgi Stavros was, as he had said, marvelous; and in
two days I could walk as well as ever. I at once called on Mrs. and Miss
Simons.

"They departed yesterday for Trieste," said the servant, "on their way