There is plenty of traffic on the roads from one town to another; and so long as your disguise is good enough to prevent your being recognised as a white, there is no greater danger in travelling, in Mysore, than there would be down in the Carnatic." Annie stood before him, with her fingers playing nervously with each other.

Long trained in habits of implicit obedience, and to stand in an attitude of deep respect before her numerous mistresses, she was in ignorance whether she ought to speak or not.

She had been but a child of six, when she had been carried off.

Her remembrance of English manners had quite died out, and the habit of silent submission had become habitual to her.

Dick was puzzled by her silence.
"Of course, Annie," he said, at last, "I don't want you to go with me, if you would rather stay here, or if you are afraid of the risk of travelling." She looked up with frightened eyes.
"Oh, Sahib, it is not that; I would go, even if I felt sure I should be found out and cut to pieces.