[The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Kathlyn CHAPTER XIX 10/17
Time enough when my servant gives warning." They filed out of the gallery solemnly.
Kathlyn went into the garden, followed by Bruce. "Do you know," said Kathlyn, "the sight of all that armor, old and still magnificent, seemed to awaken the recollection of another age to me ?" He wanted to take her in his arms, but he waited for her to continue the thought. "I wonder if, in the dim past, I was not an Amazon ?" She stretched out her arms and suddenly he caught them and drew them down. "I love you, Kathlyn!" "No, no!" She struggled back from him.
"Let us return to father and Winnie," she said. During this talk in the garden Umballa had not been inactive.
He ordered his captain of the guard to proceed at once to the house of Ramabai and learn if they were there, or had been. The captain salaamed and departed with his men. As Bruce and Kathlyn reached the door leading into the house they were met by Ramabai, whose face was grave. "Ah, Mem-sahib, you ought not to have come out here.
You might be seen." The servant who had been watching the street burst in with the cry: "Soldiers!" The colonel, Winnie and Pundita appeared.
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