He slipped it on his own finger and turned it
round slowly, examining it.
"See how I trust thee," said the priest.
"More than I do thee!" muttered the Risaldar.
"I hear my brother!" growled the Risaldar after another minute.
"Be ready to show the way!"
He walked across the room to Ruth, tore a covering from a divan and
wrapped her in it; then he opened the outer door for his half-brother.
"Is it well?" he asked in the Rajput tongue.
"All well!" boomed the half-brother, eying the unbound priest with
unconcealed surprise.
"Do any watch?"
"Not one! The priests are in the temple; all who are not priests
man the walls or rush here and there making ready."
"And the priestling?"
"Is where I left him."
"Where?--I said."
"In the niche underneath the arch, where I trapped the High Priest!"
"Are the horses fed and watered?"
"Ha, sahib!"
"Good! How is the niche opened where the priestling lies?"
"There is the trunk of an elephant, carved where the largest stone
of all begins to curve outward, on the side of the stone as you go
outward from the courtyard.
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