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RAYNIER'S PERIL,
was hopelessly and entirely out of her reckoning, and had no more idas as to where she had loft Herbert Haynier than she had as to where she herself now stood. And then nature asserted
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CHAPTER XXI.
LEFT ALONE. We must, now go back a little. Standing theru on the mountain side, on- 0.3 STEWART TERRACE, the veloped in the thick mist, nothing visible but a few yards of wet ground, Hilda Clive felt as- Apply to-- N
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she had thoroughly made up her mind which direction to take. Το this end she lifted up har voice in a loud, clear call. No answer.
Again who lifted
up her voice, and on the principle that a person will more readily catch bie ows came than any other word she enllod to her companion by his, Still no answer.
She tried another plan. She thought of every kind of call that she could sound on the highest of notes, so as to produce the meat *carrying* effecte. All useless. Still, no auswer.
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Should she move, or would not her best.
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bo to remain exactly where she was? The mit might lift, and then she could find her way back, whereas if she began wandering about, the might lose her bearing entirely. She know she was in a mountain cload, and such lift as suddenly as they come down. On the other band they are apt to hang about the slopes for days. And as though to raphasise this side of Aroond her darker and darker,
and hunger and exhaustion, per Hild's ink to the ground in a faint that was more than half alumber.
on
When she awoke the mist had entirel disap- peared, and the sun was wall up in the b'nocky, A abadow was between it and her, and sho ataried somewhat as her eyes rested dark face, crowned by a volumiuius turbse. A man was bending over her. a mau clothed in the loose garments of the Galarzai, and armed with & sword and riffs, and the martial look gave place to one of itsona relief se she reosgnisa Mehrab Khan.
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Where is the Huzoor?" was her firat ques- tion in the best Hindustani she could command. Then Mehrab Khan proceed to explain the situation, partly by signs, partly in Hindustani, of which latter Hills understood a good deal more than she could talk. Tao Hazoor had been fonod 1 by a party of Gularzal, lying ili upon the mountain side. They had not harased him. but had carried
him
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Bat it prisoner, he was safe, she decided jigok at Masaran. If he was the Nawab's Mehrab Khan knew otherwise, his Oriental in scrutability did not betray the fact.
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She tried her voice again, this time torning to every point of the compass as she sent forth her clear high-pitched calle, Then her heart meemed to hammer within her as though it would barst, he heard an saswer.
Falut and far away it sounded, coming from a little above her. Impulsively she took a few steps in that direction thou called again. The answer came, this time londer and more distinct. Poor Hilda! She could have sank to the
ground with sheer heart sickness and despair as she stood there listening. The answer was the mere echo of her own voice. She tried it again and again to make sure of this, and then two or three tears forced themselves from her eyes, and a sob escaped her. It was too terrible, too || heart-breaking altogether.
No. It was olearly of no use standing still; besides she felt the cold and damp. She must more if only to keep off the deadly shivers which were creeping upon ker. But ju what direction? And as though the bewildering effect of the mist was not enough she remem. bered that in trying to catch the horse he had been drawn to describe a complete circle, and done for har exactly what is dono for the blind. folded one in blind man's buff, whon he or she
The Baluchi was reproachful, however, that they had left their hiding place before his re- turn, and be managed to convey to his hourer that he had get in with some people whom it volence without exciting suspicion. When he had found the plaga deserted to bad followed on their track, but the elond had kaffed bim, even as it had them. He had found the ran away stead, and now his plan was to take
Sabib Into Mazarna at vnes. The way
was clear just now and they ought to take
ad:antage of it.
Refreshed with some food, which Mebrub Khan produced, Hilda fait almost light-hearted. And then going back over her wanderings how
the elvar suuny daylight, she saw that though the direction taken was not so greatly at fault, she had ascended much too high, and kad gained a katal over which she was passing into another valley, when she detected the declivity of the ground.
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is started upon his or her quest, and with
really the same effect.
Mazsian made a great deal of Bildu Clive when she returned info and sound. What an experience she had had, and that poor Mr. Ray- Well, as would soon be back among them again nior, gushed the feminine side of Mazacona. Mashim Kher ind too much to less to incur deposition, if not destruction, by allowing harm to happen to so important a repremutative of
warth, C.O., who was not in a position to weaken nounced Mazuran, and especially Colonel Pol-
the garrison by a singlò man, it being none too strong as it was. Indeed the statim was it a Darker it grow. Night was coming on, and state of siege, its European inhabitants spend- for down in the valley beneath a wolf howleding each night within the fort, and the bearded, then another and another. Hilda remembered how they had listened to the cry of the ravening beasts there in the lighted security of the camp and could almost have smiled to herself we she pictured Mrs. Tarleton, or any other woman her neqnaintance, bero, in her own plight, with the certainty before her of a night in the awful leroliness of these gasega mountain solitudes, surrounded, for all she could tell, by prowling That such would hardly do less than simply expin she firmly bali-red, and in truth the situation was fraught wit. vary terrifying and exhausting element even for her. Yet Hilda Clive thought tmt little of herself
beasts of
prey.
long-haired tribesmen, formerly conspicuous-in the strests and bazaar, were now conspicuous their absencs. Meanwhile reinforcements by were anxiously awaited, and it looked as if they might be as for long, for a very large force was
the field further along the border, where. according to the reports that came in, fighting
abundant and brisk.
Tarleton was somewhat subduen since his re- turn, and whereas Haslam was rather fond of expatiating upon their adventures. the Civil Sergeon was more inclined to shelve the subject when it was breached. It wasn't a thing to bulk about, be declared, or could be under- stand how that fellow Haslam could bukk about
in the matter. What would become of nothing else. They had neither of them cut so companion, left alone on the wet bill-side-ill, failing, ferer-strickers Faud is was the idea that caused her to raise har hands to her head and press her brows hard as thongh to control the working of the busy brain within the limits of coherency.
What should she do, and how do it? Again and again all sorts of expodiants would suggest themselves. She would walk a given distance in each direction--not down, for she had been descending slightly in her parait of the horas then retrace her steps, and try another. She would walk all night if necessary—but she would find him. And then, with a terrible heart sisking, two considerations occurred to ber-one that she might pass him within a few yards in the darkness and mist, the other that she herself was beginning to fost faint with fatigue and
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It had blown aprn ber right ear she remom- bered during her pursuit of the horse yet rathor from behind. She remembered it b caso of an escaped fress of hair which bad playod about her cheek. Now by getting it upon her left ear from in frout, and keeping it there, she would be able to retrace her elena Thrilling with renewed thankfulness and hops she started to pat this plan into immediate
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great a figure in it for the raatter of that, and he for his part didn't seem to care if he never beard it mentioned again. Inwardly he was re- lieved that so far no harm had come to Ragnier through the disclosure weung from him by Mural Aful.
Just fancy, dear," Mrx, Tarleton exclaimed, when she had fisse over Hilds enough by way of relcome back. -- Who do you think has ar- rivad, jasi ne poor Mr. Raynier is eway to? Isn't it si-and he not here to welcome her " To welcome whom f" mid Hilla, tranquilly. Why his fireunde, of coursa,” "I didn't know he'd got ono."
"No more did wa, no more did any of us.” rejoined Mrs. Tarlotou, glancing curiously at the girl, yet feeling intenssly relieved at the nonchalance of her reply, for she too had
notices, in common will astam, how grat and her guest had been getting, as the Forest Officer put it, uncommonly thick together. He was remarkably close on the subject, I must say."
Well, he naturally would be. That trick of gusting on the subject, and running about showing the latest photograph, and all that, is idiotic, and 1 can't imagine Mr. Raynier being
idiotic Who is she?
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