It was not the least of my sad pleasures to visit my friends, the villagers. Poor heathen, as some might call them, had hearts to feel. Some clung to me with tears, and others threw themselves upon the ground, with loud lamentations. One of the expressions that touched me most, was from one of the old widows, who, in her sobs exclaimed, “What will become of the poor widows, when the Sahib has gone?” ⁂ The day of my departure has arrived. As I am writing these last lines my boxes are all packed, and I am only waiting. We had a farewell meeting last night at “Our Club,” and the memory of the kind words spoken, will be to me a joy forever. ⁂ The hour has come. A crowd of friends are waiting outside to say the last farewell words, and I must go. ⁂ India! The land of my birth, and the land of my degradation, of some joys and pleasures, but always embittered with fear and despair, that cannot be told, but must be felt to realize their depth. Good-bye, never again to see thee, forevermore, and I hope and pray, though I cannot forget the miserable past, that I may never again meet people, mean enough to taunt me with that miserable blasting phrase of contempt, “That Eurasian.” THE END. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] NEELY’S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY IN UNIFORM CLOTH BINDING, $1.25 EACH. LOURDES—Zola. AT MARKET VALUE—Grant Allen. Author of “The Duchess of Powysland,” “This Mortal Coil,” “Blood Royal,” “The Scallywag,” Etc. RACHEL DENE—Robert Buchanan. Author of “The Shadow of the Sword,” “God and the Man,” Etc. A DAUGHTER OF THE KING—Alien. THE ONE TOO MANY—E. Lynn Linton. Author of “Patricia Kimball,” “The Atonement of Leam Dundas,” “Through the Long Night,” Etc. A MONK OF CRUTA—E. Phillips Oppenheim. IN THE DAY OF BATTLE—J. A. Steuart. Author of “Kilgroom,” “Letters to Living Authors,” Etc. THE GATES OF DAWN—Fergus Hume. Author of “Mystery of a Handsome Cab,” “Miss Mephistopheles,” Etc. IN STRANGE COMPANY—Guy Boothby. Author of “On the Wallaby.” For Sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price by the Publisher. F. TENNYSON NEELY, CHICAGO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 185, changed “you have got hear it” to “you have got to hear it”. 2. P. 336, changed “what can happen any mortal man” to “what can happen to any mortal man”. 3. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 4. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.