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AN AMERICAN GIRL IN INDIA
a show like this. Train due yesterday. But didn't arrive. Everybody here wirin' all over the place—couldn't be found. And what do you think had happened? Why, the Begum——What, you ladies off? Oh, tell you another time. Awful joke!'
Alas! Lady Mullins had caught the eye of the wife of the member of the Board of Revenue. So regretfully I left my little A.D.C. with the story of the Begum still untold. And what happened to the Begum, or what the Begum did, remains hidden from me until this day. For that poor little A.D.C. got fever in the night and never appeared again. I always wonder if it was the fever coming on that made him talk to me the way he did at dinner.
