It was huge in length and breadth, but thin in depth compared to other Bibles of the era Keith had seen. As worn as the volume was outside however, it...was pristine on the inside. Pencil marks on the inside front cover identified the acquisition date and library call number. The book had been donated in 1983. The rest of the words were smeared beyond recognition.“Pencil!” Maddie exclaimed. “I don’t believe it.”“It’s pretty common,” Keith said. “Lots of books are identified in pencil because of. She admitted she had a crush on me. I went to buy some mangoes for her, I gave it to her and she started eating. I said Shilpa, your eyes are very intense I love them, she said thanks. I said can I put my hand around your shoulders and grinned. She said ok but only for some time. I put my hand over her arms and pulled her and said I want to taste mangoes. She said she won’t give and she wants to eat everything. I said I m speaking about your busts which are like mangoes. She was little angry.. When she recovered she found that she had been cruelly bound, gagged with a thick wad of cloth and trussed to one of the comfortable chairs in my living room where we later found her.Luckily she regained her senses quickly enough to be able to overhear snatches of conversation between Mbute and Mace as they brought the Tusker sisters up from their basement prison and readied them for departure. "To the river..."... "Chang wants them now..."... " ... catch the tide..."... "Limehouse Pier..." she. I figured that once the posse's horses got tired, the fun would go out of the chase and they would drop out, one-by-one, but pretty quickly. It turned out that I was right and I met several men walking their horses back to town.Eventually, I caught up to the marshal, who was walking his horse, but sticking to the bandits' trail. I greeted him and told him I, too, was following the bandits, but on a fairly fresh horse. He said that his horse was about gone, and he waved me on. I wondered how the.