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ca Pundita, as at the

fire preparing the noon meal, seized Kathlyn by the ar the door The wolves, arriving, flung

theely But the door was stout, and only a

battering-ram in human hands could havewhen the men-folk would return fro the wolves would lay siege

The toh Pundita was the veriest tyro,

being

anie to the wolves, for the

available cracks were not at sufficiently good angles An hour went

by, Kathlyn could hear the wolves as they crowded against the door,

sniffing the sill

The colonel, Bruce, Ramabai and Ahmed had found the horses half a dozen

natives soundly and

instilled the right kind of fear in their breasts At rifle point they

had forced the natives back to the rest house The crack of their

rifles soon announced to Kathlyn that the dread of wolves was a thing

of the past She wisely refrained froh