The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan
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Mitford Bertram. The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan
Chapter One. The Ghazis
Chapter Two. Through Flood
Chapter Three. The Forest Camp
Chapter Four. Incidental
Chapter Five. Concerning Two Fools
Chapter Six. Of the Ruby Sword
Chapter Seven. The Tangi
Chapter Eight. The Dark Jaws of Death
Chapter Nine. After Long Years
Chapter Ten. The Markhôr Cave
Chapter Eleven. Introspect
Chapter Twelve. Umar Khan – Freebooter
Chapter Thirteen. Experimental
Chapter Fourteen. The Tragedy at Mehriâb
Chapter Fifteen. Hard Terms
Chapter Sixteen. At Shâlalai
Chapter Seventeen. In the Enemy’s Hand
Chapter Eighteen “Mohammed Er Rasoul Allah?”
Chapter Nineteen. Hopes and Fears
Chapter Twenty. At Darkest Hour
Chapter Twenty One. The Durani Ring
Chapter Twenty Two. The Ruby Sword
Chapter Twenty Three. Light
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Ernest Aurelius Upward was the chief official in charge of the Government forests of Baluchistan.
Now the said “forests” had about as much affinity to the idea of sylvan wildness conveyed by that term as many of the Highland so-called deer forests; in that they were mainly distinguishable by a conspicuous lack of trees; such trees as there were consisting wellnigh entirely of the stunted, profitless, and utterly unpicturesque juniper, which straggling over the slopes of the hills and devoid of undergrowth imparted to the arid and stony landscape somewhat of the aspect of a vast continental burying-ground, badly kept and three parts forgotten.
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“Hurrah! hurrah!” crowed Lily, clapping her hands. “Let’s go and look at it. Come along, Nesta. Here’s some excitement at last!”
“Wait for the lantern. Wait – wait – do you hear?” cried her mother. “It’s very dark; you might tumble in.”
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