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Secretly, however, Rah they pretended to bow to the yoke of the priests

So upon this day matters stood thus: the colonel, Kathlyn, Bruce and

Winnie were prisoners again; Ah, and Ramabai and his

wife ratitude of

kings is as nothing when coratitude of a people

A ain (for the third time!)

and then to lock her up! Next to superstition as a barrier to progress

there stands custo one did must be done as some one else

had done it; the initiative was still chained up in the teed to the bald priests only

But Umballa had made two mistakes: he should have periven a silken cord to the chief

eunuch, to apply as directed There are no written laws a the dark

peoples that forbid the disposal of that chattel known as a woman of

the harem, or zenana There are certain custonore

The catafalque of the dead king rested upon the royal platform Two

troopers stood below; otherwise the platform was deserted When

Ramabai and Pundita arrived and mounted the platform to pay their last

respects to a kindly ravely, even

sorrowfully Rae, his honesty and justice, was

their er dared serve him, since it would be at the