The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington totravel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russianmenace are really true.
The Liberal Opposition in Parliament aresceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufacturing a scare about nothing in asserting that the prime objective of the Russians ininvading Asia is to wrest India from the British.
On the P & OLiner to India, to Lord Kenington?s surprise, a very beautiful younggirl comes up to him and asks if she can be seen speaking tohim.
Aisha explains that, owing to various mishaps, she istravelling alone and un-chaperoned and is being pursued by a tiresomeman, Arthur Watkins, and she is frightened at the way he isbehaving.
Learning that she is the daughter of one of the mostsuccessful Officers in the Army in India, Lord Kenington is only toopleased to help her.
He understands that Aisha?s father, MajorWarde, is one of the key men in The Great Game, a British SecretService dedicated to defending India from the Russians.
Becausethey find each other so interesting, Lord Kenington is as worried asAisha is when they reach Calcutta to find that her father is notwaiting for her.
Lord Kenington fears that if he is missing theremay be an alarming reason for it and they then travel together toSimla to stay with the Viceroy, Lord Lytton.
How when they arethere Major Warde turns up unexpectedly, having saved a Fort on theNorth-West Frontier.
How Aisha is kidnapped from Viceregal Lodgeand how eventually she finds happiness after her terrifying ordeal isall told in this intriguing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington totravel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russianmenace are really true.
The Liberal Opposition in Parliament aresceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufacturing a scare about nothing in asserting that the prime objective of the Russians ininvading Asia is to wrest India from the British.
On the P & OLiner to India, to Lord Kenington?s surprise, a very beautiful younggirl comes up to him and asks if she can be seen speaking tohim.
Aisha explains that, owing to various mishaps, she istravelling alone and un-chaperoned and is being pursued by a tiresomeman, Arthur Watkins, and she is frightened at the way he isbehaving.
Learning that she is the daughter of one of the mostsuccessful Officers in the Army in India, Lord Kenington is only toopleased to help her.
He understands that Aisha?s father, MajorWarde, is one of the key men in The Great Game, a British SecretService dedicated to defending India from the Russians.
Becausethey find each other so interesting, Lord Kenington is as worried asAisha is when they reach Calcutta to find that her father is notwaiting for her.
Lord Kenington fears that if he is missing theremay be an alarming reason for it and they then travel together toSimla to stay with the Viceroy, Lord Lytton.
How when they arethere Major Warde turns up unexpectedly, having saved a Fort on theNorth-West Frontier.
How Aisha is kidnapped from Viceregal Lodgeand how eventually she finds happiness after her terrifying ordeal isall told in this intriguing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
