asked the other hoarsely. 'Ivory,” jerked the nephew; 'lots of it — prime sort — lots — most annoying, from him.” 'And with that?” questioned the heavy rumble. 'Invoice,” was the reply fired out, so to speak. Then silence. They had been talking about Kurtz.

“I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained still, having no inducement to change my position.

'How did that ivory come all this way?” growled the elder man, who seemed very vexed. The other explained that it had come with a fleet of canoes in charge of an English half-caste clerk Kurtz had with him; that Kurtz had apparently intended to return himself, the station being by that time bare of goods and stores, but after coming three hundred miles, had