chair.

"Why, that's important!" said the
general, arching his brows. "I wonder if
Kamaiakan is one of those who know the
place? If so, it might be worth his while
to let me into the secret."

"Oh, you couldn't go there! It's
enchanted, and people who go near it die.
There are bones all about there, now."

"This Kamaiakan appears to be a remarkable
personage: where did you pick him
up?" inquired the professor.

"It was rather the other way," Trednoke
replied, taking one of his daughter's hands
in his, and caressing it. "We are appendages
to Kamaiakan. You look so natural,
sitting there, Meschines, that I forget it's
thirty years since we met, and that all the
significant events of my life have happened
in that time,--the Mexican war, my marriage,
and the rest of it! I have been a
widower ten years."

"And I've been a bachelor for over
sixty!" said Meschines, with a queer expression.
"Your wife was Spanish, was she not?"