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one to the other side. Most of the matchlockmen, 

 with some blank powder, are with the latter. There 

 are numbers of paths up the different nullahs which 

 join the ravine, but only two or three that are much 

 frequented, and they will fire continually at those 

 places." 



" And will they join the beaters as the line comes 

 up with them ? " inquired Hawkes. 



" Sahib, I have ordered them, when the beaters 

 in the ravine come near, to keep along the top of 

 the cliffs and shout rather in front of them, so that 

 a beast will be made to try and escape by this side. 

 The two most likely places the Sahibs can occupy 

 on this side." 



" The plan seems good, Rugonauth," said Norman. 

 " I hope it will be successful." 



" What will be, will be," the old man oracularly 

 observed. " With good fortune all will come light. 

 In my thought something will be killed, and there 

 will be more than one animal skinned at the tents 

 to-night." 



With this hopeful intimation the shikaree pro- 

 ceeded to station the two sportsmen. " Now, Sahib," 

 he said, as he reached a point which commanded 

 the gorge itself and a nullah which ran into it, 

 " this is one place, and the other is there," and he 

 pointed to another similar position a couple of 



