I told Fazli, last night, that the beasts must have more flesh, and got an order from him that all the bones from the kitchens should be given to them." That evening when Dick, on his way to the apartments of one of the officers, was going along a corridor that skirted the portion of the Palace occupied by the zenana; a figure came out suddenly from behind the drapery of a door, dropped on her knees beside him, and, seizing his hand, pressed it to her forehead.

It was, to all appearance, an Indian girl in the dress of one of the attendants of the zenana.
"What is it, child ?" he said.

"You must have mistaken me for someone else." "No, Bahador," she said, "it is yourself I wanted to thank.

One of the other attendants saw you go along this corridor, some time ago, and ever since I have watched here of an evening, whenever I could get away unobserved, in hopes of seeing you.

It was I, my lord, whom the tiger was standing over when you came to our rescue.