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A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR
at length obliged her to open her hand, and Miriam gloated over it,
chuckling to herself as she read.
“You’re married, I see,” she said; “no change for you with your master,
then, as the gossips seemed to think. And you’ll hear more of this
husband of yours, too, my dear. Sweet, tender messages are coming to
you. Ha! ha! he’s tender husband. I told you before you’d be a
prisoner, a slave, now I tell you there are worse things than that in
store for you. A shot, a knife, a –“
“Good gracious! You have killed her,” Shereen interrupted suddenly.
“My God, she is dead.” Overpowered, beaten, kicked, half-suffocated,
the girl had fainted.
CHAPTER XXXI
EVIL TIDINGS
IT was early spring again, the sky a spotless blue, the grass a tender
green, the mountains in the background still covered with snow. But of
these neither Shereen nor Gul Begum saw anything. Their horizon was