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"Do you feel like that?" curiously

"In my soul, dad, inhills "I can't explain, but that's the way I feel Soain, reenter the life we have known and all this

will resolve itself into an idle dream Ahmed has said it"

"No, he is alive soain, but Kathlyn was still gazing at the

hills without seeing them

"A white elephant," mused the colonel "Do you know it for a fact that

this Bala Khan has a white elephant?" he called across to Ramabai

"I have never seen it Sahib It is what they say"

"A pair ofa white

elephant, and I've hunted them for thirty years, here, in Ceylon, in

Burer near Madras that hadn't any

stripes The natives would not per unique, he was sacred A sacred white elephant! Poor

simple-minded fools!" The colonel felt in his pockets, then dropped

his hands dispiritedly How long since he had tasted tobacco? "Bruce,

have you got a cheroot in your pocket? I think a shed and passed up a broken cigar, which the colonel lighted

carefully The weariness seeically

"This Bala Khan should be Mohammedan," said Bruce "The Pathan

despises the Hindu"