Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fakirs, Bill and Harry, obtains their services to assist him in a counter-plot to secure the cat for himself and thus obtain the Princess. They easily outwit the vizier and the ministers, secure the Cat and return to the Maharajah's court just before the arrival of the crestfallen ministers, who have brought the two guards of the shrine, whom they supposed dead, but had only been drugged by the Boston fakirs, as proof of the fight with the Rao's soldiers which they offer as an excuse for their failure. The Maharajah is furious, but his anger...