[The Adventures of Akbar by Flora Annie Steel]@TWC D-Link book
The Adventures of Akbar

CHAPTER XI
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I perish with cold!" Foster-father was a wise man, so to avoid further discussion he stepped out and shut the door behind him.

Thus for a minute or two there was peace.

Then Foster-father's voice rose urgently from outside.
"Open! I say open! Quick!" Foster-mother flew to obey, and her husband staggered in, bearing some one in his arms.

"God send the boy be not dead," he said as he laid down his burden.
It was Roy the Rajput! "I found him quite close, frozen by the cold," he continued, as they set to work before the fire to rub the poor, stiff limbs and force a few drops of hot milk through the blue lips.
It was some time before a faint sigh, a quiver of the eyelids told that Roy was once more coming back to the world; but after that it was not long before he could sit up and tell them what had happened.
He had managed to evade the eyes of the troopers, and had arrived at the _serai_ just after the startled party had left it; had followed on their traces until he had lost his way.

In despair he had been stumbling along aimlessly when Tumbu had suddenly appeared.


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