Now drop the curtains, Bruce." So through the streets they hurried, unmolested.

Those who saw the curtained howdah took it for granted that some unsuccessful candidate was returning to her home.
It was well for Kathlyn that she had made up her mind to leap for the vines at the moment she did.

For the elephants had not left the first turn in the street when keepers and soldiers came running pell-mell into the street with ropes and ladders, prepared for the recapture of the treasury leopards, which, of course, were looked upon as sacred.
At the ancient gate the fugitives paused for the supplies awaiting them.

Ahmed was not known to the guards there; that was good fortune.
In the dialect he jested with them, winked and nodded toward the curtained howdah.

The guards laughed; they understood.