CHAPTER XII.
THE PLAN OF RAMABAI When Kathlyn returned to the compound it was with the news that she had discovered a group of men, some twelve or fifteen miles to the west.
They had paused at what appeared to be a well, and with them was the sacred white elephant.

Bala Khan was for giving orders at once to set out with his racing camels to catch and crucify every mother's son of them on the city walls.

But Ramabai interposed.
"As I came toward the compound I was given a message.

The man who gave it to me was gone before I could get a good look at his face.

These men who stole the sacred white elephant are brave and desperate.