Thomas Kinkade The Garden of Prayer paintingThomas Kinkade Stairway to Paradise paintingThomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting
Matodi ... the camels snorting and straining at their reins ... the many sorrowing Englishmen to whom the sun meant only the termination of one more night of hopeless watching ... silver dawn breaking in the little room where Prunella’s bed stood, the coverlet turned down as she had left it on the fatal afternoon ...” He described the ascent into the hills—“... luxuriant tropical vegetation giving place to barren scrub and bare rock ...” He described how the bandits’ messenger blindfolded him and how he rode, swaying on his camel through darkness, into the unknown. Then, after what seemed an eternity, the halt; the bandage removed from his eyes ... the bandits’ camp. “... twenty pairs of remorseless eastern eyes glinting behind ugly-looking rifles ...” here he took the paper from his machine and made a correction; the bandits’ lair was to be in a cave “... littered with bone and skins.” ... Joab, the bandit chief, squatting in barbaric splendour, a jewelled sword across his knees. Then the climax of the story; Prunella bound. For some time he toyed with the idea of stripping her, and began to hammer out a vivid word-picture of her girlish frame
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