The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan

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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