[The Tiger of Mysore by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tiger of Mysore CHAPTER 20: The Escape 24/53
We have got my father!" Ibrahim gave an exclamation of joy, and a minute later they joined him. "You were not asleep, then, Ibrahim ?" Dick said. "No, my lord.
I have slept during the day, and watched at night; but I did not sleep yesterday, for I was growing sorely anxious, and had begun to fear that harm had befallen you." "Well, let us be off at once.
Of course, we have had to leave the horses behind us, and I want to be at Cenopatam by daybreak.
We will buy horses there." They struck across the country to the southwest, until they came on a road between Magree and Cenopatam, and arrived within sight of the latter town just at daybreak.
As they walked, Dick and Surajah had, with no small amount of pain, removed their beards and the patches of hair. "You ought both to have shaved before you put those things on," Captain Holland said, as they muttered exclamations of pain.
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