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Towards the close of a wet afternoon two tongas discharged Lewis, George, two native servants, and a collection of gun-cases in the court-yard of the one hotel in Bardur They hadto present no letters of introduction, which are the thieves of time Now, as Lewis found himself in the strait valley, with the eternal snohere the sky should be, and sniffed the dry air froloith the pleasure of recollection

The place was the same as ever The same medley of races peraolian merchants fro; Hunza tribesled in the narrow stone streets with the civilized Persian and Turcoman from beyond the mountains Kashmir sepoys, an untidy race, still took their ease in the sun, and soldiers of South India from the Imperial Service Troops showed their odd accoutrements and queer race mixtures The place looked and sun-cases and one on the great hills, forgot his heart-sickness and had leisure for the plain joys of expectation

"I aet to work at once," he said, when he had washed the dust out of his eyes and throat "I shall go and call on the Logans this very minute, and I expect we shall see Thwaite and soainst his will, was compelled to don a fresh suit and suffer hialow of the British Resident

The Sahib was froers So the two found thelish in its air, shaking hands with a small woan was unaffectedly glad to see thelish ladies seelobe There, in that land of snows and rock, with savage tribesmen not thirtyless than fifty, she gave thelish country ho in the world," she cried "If you had only wired, Gilbert would have stayed, but as it is he has gone down to Gilgit about sos are so hu up here that one loses interest in one's profession Gilbert has nothing to do except arrange with the fore roads, and hold stupid courts, and consult with Captain Thwaite and the garrison people The result is that the poor olf, and wastes all his spare odsend a new face is to us poor people It is siain, Mr Haystoun You left us about sixteenback?"