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[Illustration: "Miss Cary has consented to become my wife."]




 THE NATIVE BORN

       or

THE RAJAH'S PEOPLE


       by

  I. A. R. WYLIE

      1910



with Illustrations by

JOHN NEWTON HOWITT




PREFACE


In earlier days a preface to a novel with no direct historical source
always seemed to me somewhat out of place, since I believed that the
author could be indebted solely to his own imagination. I have learned,
however, that even in a novel _pur sang_ it is possible to owe much to
others, and I now take the opportunity which the despised preface offers
to pay my debt--inadequately it is true--to Mr. Hughes Massie, whose
enthusiastic help in the launching of this, my first serious literary
effort, I shall always hold in grateful remembrance.

I. A. R. W.

May 9th, 1910




CONTENTS


BOOK I

CHAPTER
   I WHICH IS A PROLOGUE
  II THE DANCING IS RESUMED
 III NEHAL SINGH
  IV CIRCE
   V ARCHIBALD TRAVERS PLAYS BRIDGE
  VI BREAKING THE BARRIER
 VII THE SECOND GENERATION
VIII THE IDEAL
  IX CHECKED
   X AT THE GATES OF