[The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Kathlyn CHAPTER XIII 13/30
The two young people should stain their skins and don native dress.
He would give them two camels outright, only they would be obliged to make the journey without servants. "But if harm comes to you, and I hear of it, by the beard of the prophet, I'll throw into Allaha such a swarm of stinging bees that all Hind shall hear of it.
Now go, and may Allah watch over you, infidels though you be!" * * * * * * Umballa sent a messenger on before, for he loved the theatrical, which is innate in all Orientals.
He desired to enter the city to the shrilling of reeds and the booming of tom-toms; to impress upon this unruly populace that he, Durga Ram, was a man of his word, that when he set out to accomplish a thing it was as good as done.
His arrival was greeted with cheers, but there was an undertone of groans that was not pleasant to his keen ears.
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