THE SLUMBER-SONG OF THE NILE
dle of the water. Oh, Siddereticus!" he whispered suddenly, "can you hear me? You're a Djinn, you must be able to! It was such a beautiful song! Thank you, dear Djinn!"
After a time of gazing through the porthole, he murmured drowsily:
"That was the star it meant, about being my night-light. Think of Djinns telling—stars—to be my—night-light!"
The Nile murmured past, and the star shone on, but Fen was fast asleep.
The elders having been occupied with dinner on the other side of the yacht, Fen was the only one who had heard the slumber-song of the Nile. Being a rather lonely and very sensitive person, and having met with a good deal of skepticism from his cousins upon reporting the doings of Siddereticus the day be-
25
