CHAPTER TWOChandra came downstairs carrying yet more items to add to the large pile of luggage already assembled in the hall.
She had always thought it was easy to travel light, but she had found instead that her father required so many things that she had already teased him by saying he would need a special elephant to carry them.
A number of them were of course, essential to his work and he would have been lost without them, just as he would not have thought of going off anywhere without a number of books to read.
He was determined to know a great deal about Nepal before he reached it.
It was one of the few places in the East that he had not visited in the past and he and Chandra found that they were absorbed by what they could learn from the numerous books which filled the study wal
