TOLD IN THE EAST
By Talbot Mundy

[[Original Book edition published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis,
1920. Source of the following edition is the omnibus "Romances of
India" which was a reprint of three of Talbot Mundy's novels.]]

Romances of India
By Talbot Mundy
- King of the Khyber Rifles
- Guns of the Gods
- Told in the East

Contents


Hookum Hai.............1
For The Salt Which He Had Eaten............129
Machassan Ah............235

TOLD IN THE EAST




Hookum Hai

A Blood-red sun rested its huge disk upon a low mud wall that crested
a rise to westward, and flattened at the bottom from its own weight
apparently. A dozen dried-out false-acacia-trees shivered as the