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When the prisoners saw Umballa a shout went up There were some there

who had Umballa to thank for their miseries They hailed hiutter rat!"

"May his feet be tender!"

"Robber of the poor, where is rave with a pig!"

"Hast ever been thirsty, Highness?"

"Drink thy sweat, then!"

"Give the 'heaven born' irons that are rusted!"

The keepers enjoyed this raillery U to afford them

much amusement They forced him to the wrist bar, snapped the irons on

his wrist, and shouted to the a Uinner Presently he slipped and fell, and

hung by his wrists while his legs and thighs bumped cruelly The lash

fell upon his shoulders, and he shrieked and grew li's papers they found an envelope addressed to

Kathlyn It was in grandiloquent English Brevity of speech is

unknown to the East Indian Kathlyn read it with frowning eyes She

gave it to her father to read; and it hurt her to note the way his eyes

took fire at the contents of that letter The filigree basket of gold

and gems; the trinkets for which he had risked his own life, Kathlyn's,

then Winnie's In turn Bruce and Ramabai perused the letter; and to