Into their presence rushed the wild-eyed bearer.
"Save the white goddess!" he cried.
Bruce seized him by the shoulder.

"What is that ?" "The white goddess, Sahib! She is on the roof of a burning house.
Durga Ram, my master, set fire to it.

He is drunk and hiding in a house near by." "The man is mad," declared the colonel.

"Kit would not have lost her way this far.

He is lying.