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HARILEK

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HARILEK
A Romance

BY
“GANPAT”

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

TO
ARYENIS
SOMETIMES DELICIOUSLY
SAPIENTISSIMA
SOMETIMES ADORABLY
BABETTE

THE
STORY-TELLER’S INVITATION

I’ll tell you a tale of a far-off land,
Cliff-girt o’er the yellow desert sand,
And crowned with peaks of snow;
Of forests of pine and a garden gay,
Of shirts of mail in a steel-capped fray,
And shafts from the six-foot bow.
Of soldier-men and of maidens fair—
Of a fairy princess with red-gold hair
In a stronghold of wizards cruel;
Of a fight or two of an old-world kind—
Magazine-rifle and spear combined,
And death in a hand-locked duel.
Of men and women like me and you,
Of love old-fashioned yet ever new,
Brave eyes in a valley of fear;
Of the cold grey steel and the long warm kiss,
With a proper ending of honeymoon bliss—
Won’t you gather round me and hear?
“Ganpat”
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FOREWORD

In giving this story to the world I must frankly confess thatI do not know whether it is a remarkable record of actual adventure,or a fantastic romance from the pen of some onegifted with a particularly vivid imagination.

Harry Lake and I last parted in 1920 near Sorarogha inWaziristan, on the Indian frontier—I bound for home onleave, he in charge of the picketing troops, whose business itwas to ensure the reasonably safe passage of wearied soldierylike me through the knife-edged hills, where the Mahsudsnipers made night noisy and day sometimes dangerous.

I have known him on and off for many years. Stationedtoget

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