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"Pundita, you are al queen It is for you to say what shall be

done I had in h cackled ironically

"Do not dream," said Ahmed "Common sense should tell you that there

can be no republic in Allaha There

less Your Majesty, speak," he added, salaa before Pundita

She looked wildly about the roo to read the faces of

her white friends; but their expressions were like stone iuidance

"Is the life of a decrepit old h, "worth the lives

of these white people who love and respect you?"

Pundita rose and placed her hands upon her husband's shoulders

"We owe them our lives Strike, Ramabai; but only if our need deh "I'ht I

will buy chupatties and pass them about, as they did in my father's

time at Delhi, in the Great Mutiny"

And he vanished

Have you ever witnessed the swar of bees? Have you ever heard the

huht

At every intersection of streets and passages there were groups,