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 swift. Without thee, the risk is slight; Tartar girls and black eunuchs have fallen out before, and a scuffle in the Zenana is soon forgotten."

"I will do as thou biddest, Jelekha, for thou knowest best. But tell me where I may meet thee again. I would not part thus from my friend, my benefactress, without one more interview, if only to assure her of my gratitude and my faith."

"Meet me then at the outer gate of this fort this day a month hence at the stroke of midnight. Maybe, soldier," said Jelekha, her voice quavering a little, "our next interview will be long and perilous. But I trust thee, friend, for I have seen that in thy eye which I have seen in no other man's since I left my mother's home. Thou art the man I have long waited for."

Jelekha had vanished.