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The Broken Road

CHAPTER IV
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He will learn--" and Major Dewes stopped short, baffled by the look of hopelessness upon the Political Officer's face.
"I think you are all mad," said Luffe, and he suddenly started up in his bed and cried with vehemence, "You take these boys to England.

You train them in the ways of the West, the ideas of the West, and then you send them back again to the East, to rule over Eastern people, according to Eastern ideas, and you think all is well.

I tell you, Dewes, it's sheer lunacy.

Of course it's true--this boy won't perhaps suffer in esteem among his people quite as much as others have done.

He belongs and his people belong to the Maulai sect.


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