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Late in the afternoon Moya, dressed in riding costu on the hotel porch for India and her brother when she saw Verinder co down the street That he was in a sulky ill humor was apparent

"Lord Farquhar and Captain Kilaging him in talk

"Any luck?" he asked morosely and with obvious indifference

"A deer apiece and a bear for the captain"

"That fellow Kilmeny outwitted us, after all," he broke out abruptly "We've been had, by Jove! Must have been what Bleyer calls a plant"

"I don't understand"

"The rock we took froirl's eyes gleaold mine was salted, then"

"Not even salted He had gathered the stuff fro, after all," Moya said quietly

The little ?"

In spite of herself she felt a sense of error at having played the traitor to her host "Sorry I didn't like to do it, but----"

"What is it you did?" he asked bluntly