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the necessary directions The party continued on into town It was an

odd place for a walled city There wasn't a tree about, not a sign of

boscage, except soan to slope upward

Bruce wondered what the inhabitants fed upon It washe had ever seen in India Bruce asked

for his rifle, which he laid carelessly in the crook of his arroup in the center of which were the

dancers at their vocations They ceased their ht of the two elephants There were nine of these men, fierce of

eye and built muscularly No effeminate Hindus here, mused Bruce, who

did not like the looks of the natives stared

with variant emotions Many of theaze centered upon the colonel Kathlyn was almost as dark as

Pundita, and as for Bruce, only his European dress distinguished him

from Ramabai, for there was scarcely a shade difference in color But

the colonel, having been weeks in prison, was as pale as alabaster and

his hair shone like threads of silver

On through the narrow streets, soainst the s, and one could

easily look into the second stories No one seemed hostile; only a

natural curiosity was evinced by those standing in doorways or leaning

out of s