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Updated: June 21, 2025
They reached it only when darkness was falling, going out of the city on foot by the great wall of dressed stone which enclosed the Kasba of the native soldiers, and ascending and descending various slopes of deep sand, over which the airs of night blew with a peculiar thin freshness that renewed Domini's sense of being at the end of the world.
"If you thought I tried to kill you night before last why didn't you set your wolves after me, Bram as you did those other two over on the Barren north of Kasba Lake? Why did you wait until this morning? And where WHERE in God's name are we going?" Bram stretched out an arm. "There!" It was the one question he answered, and he pointed straight as the needle of a compass into the north.
I can now take care of them myself, being armed, as you see, while they are bound. Convey my thanks and compliments to your commanding officer." The soldier acknowledged the piece of money with a grave inclination of the head, ordered his men to right-about-face, and marched back to the Kasba, leaving the three slaves standing not far from the seashore, and gazing at each other in silence.
And the paper says to-morrow," cried Foster; "to take her away and marry her, no doubt. Peter, I tell you, she must be saved to-night! You and I must save her. If you won't aid me I will do it alone or die in the attempt." "Geo'ge, if you was to die a t'ousan' times dat wouldn't sabe her. You know de Kasba?" "Yes, yes go on!"
The address was nearly as long as the host's name "Badi Darga, Riverside, Zuni Mandai, in front of Shanwar Wada, Kasba Peth, Poona City." But, in spite of these precise directions, it would have been a difficult place for anyone to find who was not pretty well acquainted with the labyrinths of the old city.
It was more than a month after that before Peter the Great paid her another visit, and, to the poor girl's grief, he still came without news of her father. He had been all over the Kasba, he said, and many other places where the slaves worked, but he meant to persevere. The city was big, and it would take time, but "Geo'giana" was to cheer up, for he would neber gib in.
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