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There is another quarter in Bardur besides the English one Down by the stream side there are narrow streets built on the scarp of the rock, hovels with deep rock cellars, and a wonderful amount of cubic space beneath the brushwood thatch There the trader from Yarkand who has contraband wares to dispose of htfall into this quarter, where the foot of the Kashy tribes unentlereat faed in the pursuit of their unlawful calling

Marker speedily left the broader streets of the European quarter, and plunged down a steep alley which led to the stream Half way down there was a lane to the left in the line of hovels, and, after stopping a moment to consider, he entered this It was narrow and dark, but sranite sand There were little dark apertures in the huts, which ht have been either doors or s, and at one of these he stopped, lit a match, and examined it closely The result was satisfactory; for the htened himself up and knocked The door opened instantaneously, and he bowed his tall head to enter a narrow passage This brought him into a leamed a patch of violet sky, soith stars Below a door on the right a light shone, and this he pushed open, and entered a little room

The place was richly furnished, with low couches and Persian tables, and on the floor a brighton the divan we have already e in the mountains Fazir Khan, descendant of Abraham, and father and chief of the Bada-Mawidi, has a nervous eye and an uneasy face to-night, for it is a hard thing for a reat spaces, to sit with composure in a trap-like room in the citadel of a foe who has e on his body To do Fazir Khan justice he strove to conceal his restlessness under the usual ihtly as Marker entered, nodded gravely over the bowl of his pipe, and pointed to the seat at the far end of the divan

"It is a dark night," he said "I heard you stu on the causeway before you entered And I have many miles to cover before dawn"