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Torches were lighted and the cave entered There were es; and within these the astute Umballa saw the true reason for

the curse of the Mohauns and powder, hundreds and hundreds of

pounds of black destruction! A lower gallery--the mouth of which lay

under a slab of rock--led to the pit wherein rested the filigree

basketFor a ti his hands into the gold and stones; choked, sobbed Here

was true kingship; the private treasures of a dozen decades, all his

for the taking He forgot his enemies and their nearness as the

fortune revealed itself to hiallery with the basket

slung upon an i up the

hill! Back into the cave again Umballa cursed and bit his nails He

was unar the

sled arms to find his need

"Heaven born," spoke up the man who had knohere the cave was,

"there is an exit on the other side We can go through that without

yonder people noticing us"

"A fortune for each of you when you put this on the sloop!"

Back through the cave they rushed, torches flaring Once a bearer

stumbled over a powder can, and the torch holder all but sprawled over

him Umballa's hair stood on end Fear ih here to blow up all of Hind! Hasten!"

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