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WHILE Alwa raged alone, and while Mahommed Gunga talked to Cunningham in a rock-room near at hand, Rosemary McClean saw fit to take a hand in history. It was not her temperament to sit quite idle while others shaped her destiny; nor was she given to mere brooding over wrongs.
You shall not go to the Company's aid until you have satisfactory guarantees that your homes and friends will not be assailed behind your backs." "Guarantees to whose satisfaction, sahib?" "Yours!" "But with whom am I dealing?" Alwa seemed actually staggered. "Who makes these promises? The Company?" "I give you my solemn word of honor on it!" "It is at least a man who speaks!" swore Alwa.
"Have the jackals, then, turned tradesman?" they jeered; but she only mumbled, and displayed her swollen tongue, and held her hands in an attitude of pitiful supplication. Then Alwa cantered up rode past heard one of his men jeering drew rein and wheeled. "Give her water!" he commanded.
"On the other hand, we cannot be guilty of a breach of faith to our friend Alwa here. I must have a little talk with him before I issue any orders. Please wait here and ah do nothing while I talk to Alwa. Did you ah did you agree to marry Jaimihr, should he make you Maharanee?" "No! I told him I would rather die!" "Thank you. That makes matters easier.
The letter, most concisely and pointedly written, considering the indirect phraseology and caution of the East, deliberately accused Mahommed Gunga and a certain Alwa, together with all the Rangars of a whole province, of scheming with Maharajah Howrah to overthrow the British rule. It recommended the immediate arrest of Mahommed Gunga and stern measures against the Rangars.
As one of enemy, with a message for them, however urgent, he was no more than an incident. "By Allah!" roared Alwa suddenly. "That is no man of theirs! Quick! To the wheels! Man the wheels! Eight men to horse!" He took the cord himself, to send the necessary signal down into the belly of the rock.
"Remember!" said Alwa across his shoulder with more than royal insolence, "I swore to help thee against Jaimihr and to support thee on thy throne but in nothing did I swear to be thy tool remember!" Howrah City comes and goes Buys and sells and never knows Which is friend, and which are foes King, or Prince, or Siva.
Spies brought in news to Maharajah, Prince, and priest of the hurried raising of a Rangar army. The Maharajah and the Prince laughed up their sleeves and the priests swore horribly; the interjection of another element another creed into the complication did not suit the priestly "book." They were the only men who were really worried about Alwa. And another spy Joanna disappeared.
Now tell me over again from the beginning what you know about the political situation in Howrah. Quickly, please. Consider yourself a scout reporting to his officer." Ten minutes later Cunninham heard a commotion by the parapet, and stalked off to find Alwa, close followed by Mahommed Gunga.
"Then, I can only accept his hospitality as the representative of my government! I stay here officially, or not at all. It is for him to answer!" "Now, Allah be praised!" swore Mahommed Gunga. "I knew we had a man! That is well said, sahib!" "The son of Cunnigan-bahadur is welcome here on any terms at all!" growled Alwa when Mahommed Gunga had translated.
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