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"Don't, father!" interrupted Kathlyn "Perhaps we shall escape, but

none of us is sure Let us merely hope I'm so tired!"

Bruce reached over and pressed her hand reassuringly; and the colonel

eyed hile

"Good!" hebetter could happen He

is a et clear of this

hell, I shall not stand in their way But Winnie, Winnie; what in

God's na all these terrible weeks? Will

she try to find us? The first telegraph office we reach I must cable

her under no circumstances to stir from home Ahraph station?"

"Three days, Sahib"

"Shall we be obliged to stop at the gate to change our h to last us"

"Lose as little tih the streets they hurried, unranted that so to her home

It ell for Kathlyn that she had made up her mind to leap for the

vines at the moment she did For the elephants had not left the first

turn in the street when keepers and soldiers ca pell-mell