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"Evening, Miss McClean," said Cunningham; and she all but fainted, she was strained to such a pitch of nervousness. "Where have you come from, Miss McClean?" asked Cunningham. And she told him. She was not quite so stiff-chinned as she had been. "What were you doing there?" She told him that, too. "Where is your father?" "In his chair on the veranda, Mr. Cunningham. There, in that deep shadow."

Over and over again he cursed the men who had made Ali Partab prisoner, and over and over again: he wondered how by all the gods of all the multitudinous Hindoo mythology how, when, and by what stroke of genius he could make use of the stiff-chinned Rangar and convert him from being a rankling thorn into a useful aid. He dared not poison him yet.

But there were other men, like William Brown, who were a shade too honest and too stiff-chinned to buckle under to the social conditions of England in those days, and who were consequently not exactly pestered with offers of employment.

"You, too, overlook certain things, sahiba." He spoke evenly, with a little space between each word. With the dark look that accompanied it, with the blood barely dry yet on the dusty road behind, his speech was not calculated to reassure a slip of a girl, gray-eyed or not, stiff-chinned or not, borne up or not by Scots enthusiasm for a cause. "This is a native state. My brother rules.

Had she come nine thousand miles, and sacrificed six good years of youth and youth's heritage, to be cast into a reeking dungeon and left to die there in the dark? Not if Bill should know of it! And so she changed her argument, and prayed for Bill. If only Bill knew straight-backed, honest, stiff-chinned, uncompromising, plain Bill Brown. He would change things! "Oh, Bill! Bill! Bill!" she sobbed.