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headas thus pared down to minutes, and at the proper time Umballa

would appear, not behind the pursued, but in the road in front of them

There was, to be sure, a bare possibility of the colonel and his party

getting beyond theforward all through the night, which, by the as

exactly what the astute Ah neutralized the advantage gained

A group of masked dancers, peripatetic, was the cause Confident that

they had outstripped pursuit, she saw no reason why she should not

witness the dancing

How Umballa ca

the elephants; how they fled to a near-by tearments, fled still farther into the wooded hills, and

hid there with s Umballa

returned to the city satisfied He had at least deprived them of their

means of travel Sooner or later they would founder in the jungle,

hear of the arrival of the younger daughter and return

Ahone Now that the expedition had

practically failed, his place was back in the shoe shop in the bazaars

Yes, Ahrave He was also a trifle disheartened The fakir

had said that there would be ht be a liar like all the other Hindus Yet one part of

his foretelling was correct: many disappointments