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But every minute the vines, sturdy as they were, threatened to co and lonely experiences in the jungle had taught her the need

of cli herself across the top of

the wall, exhausted For the ti there for a few minutes till she had fully recovered her breath

Below the leopards were still leaping and striking futilely! and even

in her terror she could not but adrace and beauty And,

oddly, she recalled the pet at hoe state

When she dared risk it she gained a securer position on the wall and

sat up, flinging her legs over the side of it She saw things in a bit

of blur at first, her heart had been called upon so strenuously; but

after a little objects resumed their real shapes, and she espied the

two elephants She called, waving her hands

"It is Kathlyn!" cried Bruce

"Kit!" shouted the colonel, who shared the hoith Bruce "Kit,

hang on for a er! Ahmed, to the wall!"

The colonel and Ra the passage which ran past the garden of brides They had

had no trouble whatever in reaching the elephants But the subsequent

waiting for Kathlyn had keyed the point The