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"To-night, you say, Raives a banquet?"

"Yes, Huzoor"

"Well, put this in his cup and your obligation totime at that little packet of powder A

cold sweat formed upon his brow under his turban

"Well?" said Ued and held out his hand for the packet

The majordomo sed a few times, and bowed his head "It shall be

done, Huzoor My life is yours to do with as you please I have said

it"

"Begone, then, and bring me the news on theis Should they near the hut in

which I have hidden him, see that he is killed He is also useless"

The majordomo departed with heavy heart Raa Ram had spoken

At the banquet, with its quail and pheasant, its fruits and flowers,

its rare plates and its rarer goblets for the light wines high castes

permitted theoblet and thoughtlessly pushed it toward Kathlyn, who sat at his right

Iratitude for Rah all her dreadful ordeals, Kathlyn sprang up

suddenly, and without looking reached for what she supposed to be her

own goblet, but inadvertently her hand came into contact with

Ramabai's What she had in mind to say was never spoken