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"The king dead, Hare dead, and his daughter on the throne! How did she

get here? And what the devil is a chap to do?" Bruce stooped and

recovered his pipe and swore softly "Ali, if this is true, then it's

so eye that that sleek scoundrel

Umballa, as they call hiood

old Hare's daughter I'll look into this It's the nineteenth century,

Ali, and white women are not made rulers over the brown, not of their own

free will Find out all you can and report to me," and Bruce dismissed

his servant and fell to pacing before his tent

The native who had spread this astounding news in Bruce's ca back to the city, some fourteen miles away He had

been a bheestee (water carrier) to the house of Ra

banker's incarceration To him, then, he carried the news that a white

hunter had arrived outside the city--"Bruce Sahib has returned!"

Ra this news to Kathlyn

"Ramabai, I have saved your life; save mine Go at once to him and tell