The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-06-29
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CHAPTER XII.

clusion of the first was at hand-Am-
Der having all but abandoned belief
in its existence.
Slamming recklessly down the bed
of an ancient water course, the tonga
spun suddenly upon one wheel round
a shoulder of the banks and dashed
out upon a rolling plain, across which
the trail snaked to other farther hills
that lay dim and low, a wavy line Of
blue, upon the ~horizOn-the hills in
whose heart Kuttarpur itself lay oc-
cult. And, by the roadside, in a COM
pound fenced with camelthorn, sat an
aged and INDECENT d~ak-bungalow,
marking the end of the first stage, the
beginning of the second.
Ram Nath refined in with a flourish
and lifted a raucous voice, hailing the
syce, while Amber, painfully Olsen.
gaging his Cramped limbs, climbed
down and stumbled toward the veran-
da. The abrupt transition from vio-
lent and erratic motion to a solid and
substantial footing affected him UNI
pleasantly, and with an undeniable
qualm; the earth seemed to rock and
flow beneath him as if under the in
fuence of an artio earthquake. He
was for some seconds occupied with
the problem Of regaining his poise,
and it was not until he heard an Eng,
lishwoman's voice uplifted in accents
OF anger, that he remembered the
other wayfarer with whom he was to
D eli OVn hta fnnrn an n-nAA;pAaI -v4tb,
the white-clad figure IN the dark door.
way of the bungalow with anything
but the khansamah, coming to greet
and cheat the chance-brought guest.
where is that tonga-wallah who
deserted me here last night?' the
woman was demanding of Ram Nath,
too preoccupied with her resentment
to have eyes for the other traveller,
who at sight of her had stopped and
removed his pith helmet and stood
staring as If he had come from a
land In which there were no women.
Where" she continued, with an i'm.
peratiye stamp of a daintily-shod foot
rs that wretched tonga-wallah?"
"Sahiba," protested Ram Nath, with
a great show of Difference, how
should / know2 Belize ne is III Bad
shah Junction. whittier he returned
very late last night, being travel-worn
and weary, and where I left him, be-
ing sent with this excellent tonga to
take his place"
You were? And why have I been
detained here, alone and unprotected,
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here "
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down ahr,rtly IN ona of tha veranda
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;roto,t domolitior ord barsalf with a
had snill. for the chair was feeble
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and she was a unite substantial young
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