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Ah, they talked about it that night in the surging bazaars, in the

palace, wherever two persons caether: how the white hunter had

appeared froer approached,

entered and dropped the door, blazed away at the beast, who turned tail

and liht for eyes They

could laugh behind Uutter born, the iron heeled

upstart; they could riddle (confidentially) the council with rude jests

The laas the law; and none, not even the priests in their shaven polls

and yellow robes, ht slip beyond the law as it read The first ordeal

was over Nor, as the law read, could they lay hands upon this brave

young ood Umballa must look elsewhere for his chief

wife; the Meood,

for now there would be a second ordeal; more amusement, perhaps another

miracle True, they had taken away the pistols of the white Sahib, but

he had his hands

"Thank you," Kathlyn had said "Somehow I knew you would come" And

what she had seen in his eyes had made her tremble visibly for the first

time that day