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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 3: A Change In Affairs
20/27

Balloba has seen me at Poona, and it is likely enough that, as he thinks it over, he will remember that it was in a dress altogether different from this.

Go at once to Sufder.

If you get there before me, tell him to mount at once, and ride fast to meet me." Two minutes later, everything was prepared; and Wasil, mounting the pony, rode off, while Harry moved away among the tents.

In a quiet spot, behind one of these, he threw off his upper garments and stood in the ordinary undress of a Hindoo peasant, having nothing on but a scanty loincloth.

He had scarcely accomplished this when he heard the trampling of horses; and saw, past the tent, four troopers ride up to the spot he had just left.
"Where is the trader who keeps this tent ?" one of them shouted.


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