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The Adventures of Kathlyn

CHAPTER IX
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And I wanted them for my pretty cubs! Umballa knew that I would return for them and laid his plans.

But were they not mine ?" "Yes, if you intended to rule these people; no, if you thought to take them away.

Do you not know that to Winnie and me a hair of your head is more precious than the Koh-i-noor?
We must put our heads together and plan some way to get out." She dropped her arms from his shoulders and walked about the cell, searching every stone.

Their only hope lay in the window, and that appeared impossible since she had no means of filing through her father's chains and the bars of the window.

She returned and sat down beside her father and rested her aching head on her knees, thinking, thinking.
Bruce, struggling with the soldiers (and long since their fat flesh had been stung into such activity!) saw Umballa appear in the corridor.
"Durga Ram," he cried, with a furious effort to free his arms.


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