Chapter 1. The Breaking Of The Road
_ CHAPTER I. THE BREAKING OF THE ROAD
It was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by the river-bank and preached a _djehad_. But above all it was the road--Linforth‘s road. It came winding down from the passes, over slopes of shale； it was built with wooden galleries along the precipitous sides of cliffs； it snaked treacherously further and further across the rich valley of Chiltistan towards the Hindu Kush, until the people of that valley could endure it no longer.
Then suddenly from Peshawur the wires began to flash their quiet and ominous messages. The road had been cut behind Linforth and his coolies. No news had come from him. No supplies could reach him. Luffe, who was in the country to the east of Chiltistan, had

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