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The Tiger of Mysore

CHAPTER 6: A Perilous Adventure
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I have not seen anything I recognise, since it got light, though I am sure we have been going somewhere near the right direction.

Now, we have got to run for it." They dashed off, at a rate of speed much higher than that at which they had before been travelling; keeping, as much as possible, in ground covered from the sight of their pursuers; and bearing somewhat to the left, so as to place the latter directly behind them, and to strike the path Dick had no doubt their pursuers were keeping.
"It is no use running too fast," he said, a few minutes later.

"There is a good long way to go yet--another ten miles, I should think; and anyhow, I don't think we can get down that steep place, before they come to the edge of the cliff above.

You see, we are not certain as to where it is.

We might strike the cliffs a mile or two on either side of it, and I have no doubt they will go straight to the spot.


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