"Could you find your way back to him?"
"I do not know," she replied; "but he will find his way to me."
"Then I have a plan," said the stranger. "I live but a few marches
from here. I shall take you home where my wife will look after you
and care for you until we can find Korak or Korak finds us. If he
could find you here he can find you at my village. Is it not so?"
Meriem thought that it was so; but she did not like the idea of
not starting immediately back to meet Korak. On the other hand
the man had no intention of permitting this poor, insane child to
wander further amidst the dangers of the jungle. From whence she
had come, or what she had undergone he could not guess, but that
her Korak and their life among the apes was but a figment of a
disordered mind he could not doubt. He knew the jungle well, and
he knew that men have lived alone and naked among the savage beasts
for years; but a frail and slender girl! No, it was not possible.
Together they went outside. Malbihn's boys were striking camp
in preparation for a hasty departure. The stranger's blacks were
conversing with them.
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