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"Any seaport near?" asked the colonel

"Perhaps seventy o"

The colonel seized Kathlyn in his araiety for his

sake, but her heart was heavy with foreboding

"And the filigree basket shall be divided between you and Pundita, Kit"

"Give it all to her, father I have begun to hate what men call

precious stones"

"It shall be as you say; but we may all take a handful as a keepsake"

Two days later the expedition was ready to start They intended to

pick up Ahalow itself at

the camp

Umballa was thereupon secretly taken froiven

a ca a curse at the ht Ransom? He would

destroy them; aye, and take the treasure himself, since he knehere

it now lay, this infor been obtained for hi his habitation where he would

Day after day he followed, tireless, indomitable, as steadfast upon the

trail as a jackal after a wounded antelope, never coht, dropping behind in theup bits of food left by the treasure seekers Money and

revenge; these would have kept hi