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willi their luii'iioiiscs Ik'Iwcch llieir legs, and ictunicd crest- 

 I'allcii to their (/rifouiis dii the hilh I was not sorry to 

 part with Ali. who was a radieal and h-NcHer. if not a 

 ( ihtdslonian. and had poisoned I lie mind of hrs coin pan ion ; 

 1»ut we misled AlMlnlhih. who was teaehalih'. Like most 

 Aralis he was uit'ied w i I h woiKh'rfid evcsio-lii. ;ind a *\'.\y 



AUDI l.l.AH. 



or two late)- lie s]iied mo on the hdh and eainr raeini^' 

 across it. draoo-ino- his wile, who was ralhei' a uiiod-h)oking 

 young woman, and the>c mountain Arah-> lia\i' no 

 nonsense ahoiit rovoring their faces. She eaine to ph-ad 

 l"o|- him — at least I gathered that that was the np-hot, of 

 their iahher — and when I took hnn a^ani into ni\' ser\"iee 

 1 was rewarded with L-ralelid Lihinees. 



'V\\o weather mending we again mo\'e(l to ihe inonntain, 

 and thi-^ tinn' we deti'rmineil ti» e.-imp m t he w ateli-t ow ei' 

 itself. At the top a eniiMii< .-ind tant;di>iii'_;- tldng 

 happened. \Vc were close t" the tower, and the nndes 



