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His pipe slipped froers and his head fell upon his knees; and

thus Kathlyn found him

"Let him sleep, Mem-sahib," warned Ahuru"

"What?" Kathlyn whispered back "Where?"

Ahrimly and pointed toward his forehead

"Is there really such evil, Ahood The Colonel

Sahib did wrong And who shall deny sourus a supernatural

power? I have seen; I know"

"But once you said that we should eventually escape, all of us"

"And I still say it, Mematically

Wearily she turned toward her tent, but paused to touch the head of her

sleeping father as she passed Her occidental mind would not and could

not accept as possibilities these mysterious attributes of the oriental

e a man's misfortunes

was to her mind incredible, for there were no precedents She never

had witnessed a genuine case of hypnotism; those examples she had seen

werenot even the

newsboys in the upper gallery True, she had sole hich she had read the Arabian

Nights--fairy stories