where on the northern coast of Alume, the lesser of the great islands of the Maorian group.
After some further conversation we took our leave. Anvar and I saw the ladies seated in the curricle I had brought to the door, and started after they were out of sight.
I must do my companion the justice to say that he took his punishment nobly. That he was very hard hit I could infer from various circumstances. But by not a word did he betray the fact that he had just met with a disappointment likely to color many years, if not the whole, of his life. He proved, on the contrary, a most interesting companion; and the hour or so of our return ride passed pleasantly enough in varied converse, though neither alluded to the subject that most occupied the minds of both.
