Chapter FiveBrucena thought that the entertainment seemed to go on interminably.
At any other time she knew that she would have been thrilled and delighted with the dancing of the women, the snake charmers and the strange musical instruments whose melody she was beginning to appreciate.
But she found it hard to prevent her thoughts from returning again and again to the little boy, who she sensed was now in the possession of the Thugs.
There was no doubt that the men she had seen him with on the road must have killed the whole party of travellers but, as she had learnt from her books, they had saved the child because he was attractive.
For what reason she did not like to question too closely.
The Maharajah who had received them was like a Prince in a Fairytale and only his face betraye
