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Umballa stepped back

"I am Kathlyn Hare, and if all the world is not made up of lies and

wickedness, I am the queen you yourself h to ain

with you I will give you five times five thousand rupees if you will

deliver ,

nothing"

Umballa raised both his hands in astonishment He knehy that

forhed and clapped his hands to su that it was useless to attempt to move this man,

turned and started to run, but he intercepted her "My queen, olden houri! Five times five thousand rupees

would not purchase a hair of your head"

"I am your queen!" But she said it without heart

"What! Do you believe that? Having passed the ordeals you nullified

the effect by running away You will be whatever I choose! Oh, it

will be legally done You shall go with me to the council, and the

four of us shall decide Ah, you would not be a Ra"

"Ah! Still that spirit which I loved Why, did I not buy you without

knoho you were? Are you not mine? At this very moment I could