have to hold it by force of arms, and when we send the stuff down to
the coast we must have an escort of picked men. The bushes grow up
there as thick as gooseberry bushes in a garden at home. With a
little cultivation they will yield twice as much as they do now. We
shall want another partner. I know a man, a soldierly fellow full
of fight, who knows the natives and the country. I will undertake
to lead you there, but you will have to take great care of me. You
will have to have me carried most of the way. I am weak, devilish
weak, and I am afraid of dying; but I know the way there, and no
other man can say as much! It is in my head here; it is not written
down. It is only in my head, and no one can get it out of there."

"No," said Meredith, in his quiet, refined voice, "no, no one can
get it out. Come, let us turn in. To-morrow I will go down the
river with you. I will turn back, and we can talk it over as we go
downstream."



CHAPTER VIII. A RECRUIT



Said the Engine from the East,
"They who work best talk the least."

It is not, of course, for a poor limited masculine mind to utter
heresies regarding the great question of woman's rights. But as
things stand at present, as, in fact, the forenamed rights are to-
day situated, women have not found comprehension of the dual life.