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The living-rooe and comfortable The walls

were adorned with the heads of wild beasts and their great furry hides

shared honors with the Persian rugs on the floor Hare was a o to the far ends of the world

to find a perfect black panther, a cheetah with a litter, or a great

horned rhinoceros He was tall and broad, and aly active, for

all that his hair and mustache were alone about the hazardous enterprise of supplying zoological

gardens and circuses ild beasts He was known froapore, froer, and the Malayan panther had cause to fear Hare Sahib He was

even now preparing to return to Ceylon for an elephant hunt

The two daughters went over to the tea tabouret, where a rant odor of tea permeated the

room Hare paused at his desk Lines suddenly appeared on his bronzed

face He gazed for a space at the calendar The day was the fifteenth

of July Should he go back there, or should he give up the expedition?

He ht never return India and the border countries! What a land,

full of beauty and romance and terror and squalor, at once barbaric and

civilized! He loved it and hated it, and sometier

He shrugged, reached into the desk for a box of Jaipur brass enaolden disk was