"I have a plan.

It will be useless to return to-night.

He will be too well guarded.

Are you brave, Pundita ?" "I would die for the Mem-sahib." "And I, too," added Ramabai.
Ahmed and Bruce gazed at each other.
"What is your plan, Mem-sahib ?" asked Ahmed, replacing the board and helping Kathlyn out of the cage, the door of which he closed quickly, as the leopard was evincing a temper at all this nocturnal disturbance.
"It is a trap for Umballa." "He is as wise as the cobra and as suspicious as the jackal," said Ahmed doubtfully.
"Reason forbids that we return to-night.

Umballa will wait, knowing me.