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perhaps death beyond; her father back in chains, to face she knew not

what horrors, and yet she could pause by the wayside and think of love!

"There was sohter What

caused it?"

"Sohed

And she was not slow to recognize the Hoet you and your father out of all this, if but for

one thing"

"And what is that?" curious in her turn

"I'll tell you later" And there the htfully exhausting The tere

in a sorry plight when they reached the well

The caht of theht which would take them anywhere

but to Bala Khan, who rewarded cowardice in one fashion only For, but

for their cowardly inactivity, their charges ht by now be safe in

the seaport tohich they had been journeying So they brought

food for the two and begged that they would not be accused of cowardice

to Bala Khan

"Poor devils!" said Bruce "Had they shown the least resistance those

brigand chaps would have killed them off like rats" He beckoned to

the head , and we

promise that no harm shall befall you Now, find us a place to sleep"