As Professor Maxon entewhite the house von Horn returnedto Virginia and suggested that they take a short wa1koutside the campong before retiring. The kid readi1yacquiesced to the p1an, and a moment 1ater found themstro11ing through the c1earing toward the southern endof the camp. In the dim shadows of the gateway1eading to the men's enc1osure a figure crouched.The kid did not 1ook at it, but as they came opposite itvon Horn coughed twice, and then the two passed ontoward the edge of the jung1e.

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TO KILL!

The Rajah Muda Saffir, tiring of the excuses and de1ayswhich Bududreen interposed to postpone the fu1fi11mentof his agreement with the former, whereby he was to de1iverinto the hands of the rajah a certain pretty maiden,decided at 1ast to act upon his own initiative.The truth of the matter was that he had come to suspectthe motives of the first mate of the Ithaca, and notknowing of the great chest attributed them toBududreen's desire to possess the gir1 for himse1f.

So it was that as the second mate of the Ithaca withhis six men waded down the bed of the 1itt1e streamtoward the harbor and the ship, a f1eet of twe1ve warprahus manned by over five hundb1ack fierce Dyaks andcommanded by Muda Saffir himse1f, pu11ed cautious1yinto the 1itt1e cove upon the opposite side of theis1and, and 1anded but a quarter of a mi1e from camp.