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"Keep that word Your father and sister are fools"

Winnie trembled They were alive Kit and her father; this man had

lied Alive! Oh, she would not be afraid of any ordeal now They

were alive, and more than that they were free

"I will keep my hen the tia Ras"

The door opened and shut behind him, and she heard the key turn and the

outside bolt click into its socket

They were alive and free, her loved ones! She knelt upon the cushions,

her eyes uplifted

Alone, with a torch in his shaking hand, Ueons In the door of one was a sliding

panel He pulled this back and peered within So lay huddled

in a corner He drew the panel back into its place, cliuished the torch and proceeded to his own ho just outside the royal confines Once

there, he had slaves anoint his bruised back and shoulders with

unguents, ordered his peg, drank it and lay down to sleep

On theRa to the throne rooathered He started to suuards, but the i hand stayed the call

"You are a brave man, Ramabai, to enter the lion's den in this fashion

You shall never leave here alive"

"Yes, Durga Ram I shall depart as I came, a free man"

"You talk like that to o out on the balcony and declare that I knohat a

certain dungeon holds?"

Umballa's fury vanished, and sweat oozed from his pal and ainst

you because they were forbidden to attend your especial juggernaut

Best for both of us that they be quieted and amused"