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"Ahmed"

"Yes, Sahib Listen" He told his tale quickly

"The guards at all the gates have orders to shoot me if they catch uise myself in some way"

"I'll find you an Arab burnoose, hooded, Sahib, and that will hide you

It will be dark by the tiates That will allay suspicion First we must seek the

house of Ramabai I need money for bribery"

Bruce searched his wallet It was eiven all he had to

the Brahmin

"You lead, Ah about Ahmed, not even the keenest of

Umballa's spies U To the populace he was a harlad not in any way to be implicated with his master So they let

hih, but so

far he had heard nothing except that the British Raj was very busy

killing the followers of the Mahdi in the Soudan It was a subtle

inference that for the present all aliens in Allaha must look out for

the Day after day I have

been waiting, hoping Colonel Sahib lives, but where I know not"

"Lives!"

"Ai! In yonder prison where later we go He lives That is enough

for his servant He is my father and my mother, and I would die for

hiate Bend your head, Sahib, when