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The Tiger of Mysore

CHAPTER 17: Back At Tripataly
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"Surajah brought them up at once." "Then he had better get them," the Rajah said.
"What do they contain, Dick ?" he asked, as Surajah left the room.
"All sorts of things--necklaces and rings.

Some of them are stones, as if they had been taken out of their settings.

Pertaub said they had done this because they thought, perhaps, that Tippoo would not allow the jewels they had worn to be sold, or worn by anyone else." "Then I should think that they must be valuable," the ranee said.
"Pertaub said they were worth a good deal, but I don't know whether he really knew about the cost of precious stones.

Some of the things were of small value, being, I suppose, the trinkets of the slave girls.

All gave something, and there is a little cross there that belonged to Annie.


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