Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 112: what you’re looking at

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By W. A. FRASER Author of ** The Three Sapphires,’’ “‘ Thoroughbreds,"’ etc. CHAPTER XIX. THE AFGHAN. EWAN SEWLAL had warned Hunsa and Sookdee against their natural : proclivities for making a decoity _ while traveling to the Pindari camp. as the mission was more important than loot—an enterprise that might cause them to be illed or arrested. Indeed, the Gulab had le this a condition or her going with . She was practically put in com- 1. Both Nana Sahib and the Dewan pleased over what they deemed her quiescence in the scheme. As id, the Dewan, recognizing the of Hunsa, had promised 1 he returned if Rootea "ani The decoit, believing that Bootea was designed for Nana Sahib’s harem, knew that as one favored in the prince’s eyes, he would surely be put to death if he offended her. So, traveling with the almost incessant swift progress which was an art with all decoits, inea few days they arrived at Raj- gar, the town to which Amir Khan had shifted. He had taken possession of a palace belonging to the Rajput rajah as hts headquarters, and his army of horsemen were encamped in tents on the vast, sandy plain that extended from both sides of the River Nahal. The local name of this river was “ The Stream of Blood,” so named be- cause a fierce force of Arab mercenaries im the employ of Sindhia, many years before, had butchered the entire tribe of Nahals— e