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He shook his fist toward Allaha "Oh, Durga Ram, one of these fine

days you and I shall square accounts!"

Kathlyn had just corass Three years

before she had learned the trick from the natives in Hawaii The many

days of hardship had made her thinner, but never had she been so hardy,

so clear eyed, so quick and lithe in her actions She had lived

precariously, stealing her food at dusk frooes Soht break the oppressive silence which always

surrounded her

She kept carefully out of the way of all hus, so she had lost

all hope of succor from the brown people, who had becole There was soer, the leopard, the wild elephant; but she placed all natives

(perhaps wrongly) in a class with the unclean jackals and hyenas

Tanned deeply by wind and sun, Kathlyn was darker than ht of Bruce, but hope of his finding her had

long since died within her Every night when she climbed to her

platfor; south,

toward the land where there hite people; but eachfound

her hesitant