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304 to stand on ceremony in any town. His sixteen men cantered down the alleys of Yarkand, and presentlyflung open the gates of the Sarai.

There the quarry was found. Every hand in the Sarai went up without delay when its inmates heard the challenge, and saw behind the gleaming bayonets the sixteen gaunt, wolfish faces of their pursuers.