Cassell's Magazine, vol. 53, no. 3

Marie

'Ah! here you come, Hernan Pereira,' she cried, 'riding on an ox, while better men walk'

There, advancing from the doorway of one of the houses... and leading by the hand a mere skeleton of a child... I saw—I saw Marie Marais!

For a long while he stared at me... Then he said, 'Allemachte! you remind me of someone, young man!'

Marie herself appeared within the circle of the camp-fire’s light. I sprang up and ran to her

To be continued