ing crowd's ignobl

erent was it from all I had expected. It stands in a small valley, surrounded by low jungle-clad hills. The clearing is perhaps three miles

imposingly termed "The Circular Road." This road, but recently constructed, is six or seven miles long, and

he lonely posts mark the situations of houses which it is hoped will, in the future, be built on the allotments which they represent. In theory, the circular road is lined with houses, for Remyo has a great future before it;

station, and lacking only one essential feature-a railway, for the railway, like the great future of Remyo, is late in arriving, and so the road and the r

om the ground, with sloping overhanging roofs, and open sides. The road through the bazaar is always very dusty, crowded with bul

e District Bungalow, and the Post Office; half-a-dozen Europ

breathe. I verily believe that when the white man penetrates into the interi

ices, bungalows, and stables. About the interior of the building I must confess ignorance, it being an unpardonable offence for any woman to cross

o or more ladies of the station nightly assemble for an hour before dinner, to read the two months old magazines, to search vainly through the shelves of the "library" for a book the

s wish to play whist, and the other half wished to talk, many inconveniences (to say the least) would arise. As there are but four lady m

orth determinedly to their tiny hut. There they sit night after night till nearly dark, and then, not daring to disturb the lordly occupants of the big house, to demand protection, they steal home nervously along the jungle bordered road, trembling at every sound, bu

ith over-hanging roofs. They are often raised some twenty feet above the ground, and pr

npretentious appearance. I cannot say who was the architect, but a careful co

he roof. The front door opened directly into the drawing-room, the drawing-room into the dining room, the dining-room into the bedrooms, and the bedrooms on to the compound again. Thus we were enabled in all weathers to have a direct draught through the house, and as Remyo is a remarkably w

there were no inside doors, consequently one could easily carry on a conversation wit

for three days, and during that time all communication between the drawing room and bedrooms was entirely cut off, for the only way from one t

n each of the small bedrooms he had built large open fireplaces, worthy of a baronial hall, while in ne

properly brought up, and proud of our drawing room, we preferred to occupy it, and often, as I sat shivering while the wind tore through the rooms, whistling and shrieking round the furniture,

unknown in Remyo. If you want anything

me, you assume they are not at home, put your cards on the doorstep or through a chink in the wall, and depart. It is

the dining room. I don't know where the bell originally came from, but I think it must have come from a pagoda, for it was undoubtedly bewitched. It rang at all hours of the day and night without pro

ght when they heard it then, that the house was attacked by dacoits or tigers and we were ringing for help, and they deemed it more prudent to remain shut up in their "go downs." When we attempted to

ce and fruits? However, my doubts were soon set at rest when we visited the compound, for there stood a tiny tin shed, inside which was a broad brick wall, with three holes for fires, and what lo

es of the poor exiles with the dainty dishes I would cook for their edification. When I saw that kitchen, and when I learned that such a thing as a pair of scales did not exist in t

remove" type. It is of the lightest and most unsubstantial ki

y a dreary little out-of-the-way village, where perchance he sees for months no fellow white man, and where his chair and pipe alone receive his confidences, and solace his soul in the utter lo

ngle, never. Everything is selected with a view to quick packing; pictures, ornaments, and useless decorations are reduced to a minimum, and only articles of furniture which ar

r the housewife is perpetually moving her furniture, "turning her rooms round" so to

oud of the position he holds, even he talks of what he will do when he "goes home," and in imagination crowns with a halo "this little precious stone set in the silver sea, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm

piece of furnitu

imate. When first it came to us it was quite a nice piano, rather jingling, and not always in tune, but "fit to pass in a crowd with a s

hen one struck C sharp, it promptly sang out high F's tone, and high F, being deprived of its lawful voice, was forced to adopt a sound like nothing we had ever heard before. Then E fl

such a doubtful, apologetic manner that it was of very little effect. Others grew annoyed, sided with various leaders in the quarrels, jangling together noisily, and persisting in sounding discords and

ould no longer be trusted to produce a low note, nor the treble a high one, and a chromatic scale produced

ical friend who called one day when I was sounding (it could no longer be called playing) the piano, I know not, but certain it is, the piano was suddenly seized with remorse. Notes con

m the treble, or a low murmur from the bass. After a time, even these ceased, and the once