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During the last week in December there arrived at the Palace Hotel in

San Francisco an East Indian, tall, well formed, rather handsome

Except for his brown turban he would have passed unnoticed For Hindus

and Japanese and Chinamen and what-nots from the southern seas were

every-day affairs The brown turban, however, and an enorers, produced an effect quite gratifying to him

Vanity in the Oriental is never conspicuous for its absence The

reporters gave hih, for this was at a time when

the Gaikwar of Baroda was unknown

The stranger, after two or three days of idling, casually asked the way

to the wild anih to find At the village inn he was treated with tolerant

conte, to and

fro, from the colonel's

At five o'clock in the afternoon of the thirty-first day of December,

this East Indian peered cautiously into the Frenchof the Hare

bungalow The picture he saw there sent a thrill into his heart She

was as fair and beautiful as an houri of Sa'adi She sat at a desk,

holding a long white envelope in her hand By and by she put it away,

and he was particular to note the drawer in which she placed it That

the dark-haired girl at the tea tabouret was equally char did not