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THE PASSING OF PENGLIMA PRANG SEMAUN

upon Haji Musah to yield, but he declined utterly
to do so.
"
His wife What is the use, you are wounded
said,
and cannot so am I and so is- Haji Sahil, what
fight,
can we do, better make terms with them ? " Haji
Musah stubbornly declined to listen to this persua-
sion and only said, "Let them do their worst, I
will not yield."
Strange to say it was only then that Haji Hawah
realised that her was She
daughter missing.
remembered that the had left the house with her
girl
and gone into the kitchen, but until that moment,
what with the that the enemy was within
discovery
their gates, the struggle at the door and subsequent
events, she had not thought of the girl further than
to suppose she was sitting terrified in some corner
of the never house.
brilliantly lighted
Now, however, it was certain that she had failed
to get back before the door was closed and must
have fallen into the hands of the enemy.
As a matter of fact nothing of the kind had
happened. On the first alarm, seeing the crowd of
strange men and her mother's struggles to gain the
house, the girl was too terrified to leave her shelter
and had hidden herself in the kitchen. The enemy
all under the house when the women
being first
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