"When Ramabai returns it will be to fight.

He will not be able to avoid it now.

I shouldn't mind going back with him.

Ahmed, what is this strange hold Umballa has over the actions of the Council of Three?
They always appear to be afraid of him." "Ah, Sahib," said Ahmed, resting his ankus or goad on the skull of his mount, "there is said to be another prisoner in the palace prison.

Lal Singh knows, I believe." "What's your idea ?" "Sahib, when I put you all safe over the frontier I am coming back to Allaha to find out." And that was all Ahmed would say regarding the subject.
"I'll wager he knows," whispered Bruce.
"But who can it be?
Another poor devil of a white man?
Yet how could a white man influence the actions of the council ?" The colonel spoke irritably.
"Look!"-- from Kathlyn; "there is one of those wonderful trees they call the flame of the jungle." She called their attention to the tree merely to cause a diversion.