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Ironically Umballa bade the fishermen to enter to eat and drink what

they liked Later he found them in a drunken stupor in the kitchen

That here they belonged

He ordered his prisoners to be brought into the Court of Death and left

there

"You see?" said Umballa "Nohere have you hidden the treasure?"

Kathlyn walked over to one of the cages and peered into it A sleek

tiger trotted up to the bar; and purred and invited her to scratch his

head

"I am not answered," said Umballa

A click resounded froes

"That will be all for the present," said Umballa "Food and water you

will not require To- another bar will be re the town began to seethe in the squares Bala

Khan's army lay encamped outside the city!

When Bruce, Ramabai, Pundita and Ahreeted by the now terrified priests who begged to

be informed what Bala Khan proposed to do

"Deliver to us the Meods that they knew nothing of her

"Let us enter the te the treasure

and leave it in the care of the priests" A few e "Bala Khan is hostile, but only for the sake

of his friends He lays down this laever--obey it or disobey it

The Colonel Sahib and his daughters are to go free, to do what they

please with the treasure Pundita, according to the will of the late