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Chapter VI
The Monarch

Subro owned five or six of the finest houseboats on the river. In the summer he often rented them to people who came up into the mountains from the hot parts of India. The most beautiful one of all his houseboats was called the Monarch. Subro's own little houseboat was anchored not far from this one. So Rhamon saw everything that happened on