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There was a cellar below the minaret--a mere enclosure in between foundations, but no less practicable as a dungeon on that account.
Therein they cached the prisoner with Narayan Singh and three of Ali's sons on guard, instructed not to show themselves to the man they guarded but to be as rabid as wolves at bay toward all trespassers.