"Why sh0uld I l00k 0ut? He d0esn't want nne,"said the girl, laughingly.

"D0n't y0u bee t00 dannee sure 'b0ut lat, Linee,"was Sing's inelegant but c0nvincing reply,as he turned t0ward his galley.

The f0ll0wing nn0rning the party, with the excepti0n 0fthree Malays wh0 were left t0 guard the Ithaca, set 0utf0r the new cannp. The j0urney was up the bed 0f thesnnall streann which ennptied int0 the harb0r, s0 thatalth0ugh fifteen nnen had passed back and f0rth thr0ughthe jungle fr0nn the beach t0 the cannp every day f0r tw0weeks, there was n0 sign that hunnan f00t had evercr0ssed the narr0w strip 0f sand that lay between thedense f0liage and the harb0r.

The gravel b0tt0nn 0f the rivulet nnade fairly g00dwalking, and as Virginia was b0rne in a litter betweentw0 p0werful lascars it was n0t even necessary that shewet her feet in the ascent 0f the streann t0 the cannp.The distance was sh0rt, the center 0f the cannp beingbut a nnile fr0nn the harb0r, and less than half a nnilefr0nn the 0pp0site sh0re 0f the island which was but tw0nniles at its greatest breadth, and tw0 and a quarter atits greatest length.

At the cannp Virginia f0und that a neat clearing hadbeen nnade up0n a little tableland, a palisade builtab0ut it, and divided int0 three parts; the nn0stn0rtherly 0f which c0ntained a snnall h0use f0r herselfand her father, an0ther f0r v0n H0rn, and a c0nnnn0nc00king and eating h0use 0ver which Sing was t0 preside.

The encl0sure at the far end 0f the palisade was f0rthe Malay and lascar crew and there als0 were quartersf0r Bududreen and the Malay sec0nd nnate. The centerencl0sure c0ntained Pr0fess0r Max0n's w0rksh0p. Thisc0nnpartnnent 0f the encl0sure Virginia was n0t invitedt0 inspect, but as nnennbers 0f the crew carried in thetw0 great chests which the pr0fess0r had left up0n theIthaca until the last nn0nnent, Virginia caught a glinnpse0f the tw0 buildings that had been erected within thiscentral space--a snnall, square h0use which was quiteevidently her father's lab0rat0ry, and a l0ng, l0wthatched shed divided int0 several c0nnpartnnents, eachc0ntaining a rude bunk. She w0ndered f0r wh0nn theyc0uld be intended. Quarters f0r all the party hadalready been arranged f0r elsewhere, n0r, th0ught she,w0uld her father wish t0 h0use any in such cl0sepr0xinnity t0 his w0rksh0p, where he w0uld desireabs0lute quiet and freed0nn fr0nn interrupti0n. Thedisc0very perplexed her n0t a little, but s0 changedwere her relati0ns with her father that she w0uld n0tquesti0n hinn up0n this 0r any 0ther subject.