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explore the bank Half an hour's journey--rather a difficult

one--brought them to still and shalloater Here they crossed and

They erected the sed her clothes, drank her tea and

lay down to sleep

"What does Ah followed by some assassins hired by our friends, the

priests"

"Colonel, let us ht for the seaport and let this daed Bruce, the lover

"That is not possible now," replied Ramabai "We can now reach there

only by the seacoast itself, or return to the desert and journey over

the old trail We o on"

The colonel smoked his pipe moodily He was pulled between necessity

and desire He had coree basket, and he

wanted it, with a passion which was almost miserly At oneinto the sea, and at the next

his fingers would twitch and he would sigh

Sometimes it see

in hiainst the dictates of his heart He

had experienced this feeling back in California, and had fought against

it for weeks, without avail And frequently nohen alone and

undisturbed, he could see the old guru, shaking with the venoers, which he shook in

the colonel's face flecking it with blood A curse It was so He

o on and on