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About ten o'clock, as far as I could judge, when the Moon had just risen above the lip of the crater, Gunga Dass made a move for his burrow to bring out the gun-barrels whereby to measure our path. All the other wretched inhabitants had retired to their lairs long ago. The guardian boat drifted downstream some hours before, and we were utterly alone by the crow-clump.
The camels, with Yasmini and her women already mounted, were kneeling in the darkness outside the house of Mukhum Dass. "Come!" called Yasmini. "Hurry!" Dick kissed his wife waved his hand to Yasmini helped Tess on to the last camel in the kneeling line and they were off, the camel-men not needing to shout to make those Bikaniri racers rise and start.
Dis whim dey lay 'im down. Ise bawn wid a cawl!" There were exclamations from the listeners, for Xenophon spoke as one having authority. Suddenly he turned and pointed his outstretched hand full at Judge Briscoe. "An' dass de main," he cried, "dass de main kin tell you Ah speak de trufe."
They were fools, these people unfit to cut the toe-nails of a Marwari from Pali. I lent money to them all. A little, very little only here a pice and there a pice. God is my witness that I am a poor man! The money is all with Ram Dass may his sons turn Christian, and his daughter be a burning fire and a shame in the house from generation to generation!
As I did so I thought of my wretched fellow-prisoner's unspeakable misery among all these horrors for eighteen months, and the final agony of dying like a rat in a hole, with a bullet-wound in the stomach. Gunga Dass fancied I was going to kill him and howled pitifully. The rest of the population, in the plethora that follows a full flesh meal, watched us without stirring.
He looked up from it as he tore off a leaf and slipped it into his breast pocket. "It is a strange way of doing the thing," he said. "Who planned it?" Ram Dass made a modestly apologetic obeisance. "It is true that the first thought was mine, Sahib," he said; "though it was naught but a fancy. I am fond of this child; we are both lonely. It is her way to relate her visions to her secret friends.
For Langur Dass was speaking to my lord the elephant: "Take me with thee, Muztagh! Monarch of the hills! Thou and I are not of the world of men, but of the jungle and the rain, the silence, and the cold touch of rivers. We are brothers, Muztagh. O beloved, wilt thou leave me here to die!"
Mukhum Dass the money-lender has been foully murdered, struck down by a knife from behind by some one who relieved him of his money. Either a case of simply robbery, or else " "Or else what?" Colonel Willoughby de Wing screwed home his monocle. "That's as obvious as twice two. That rascal Mukhum Dass was bound to die violently sooner or later.
For the latter testimony, I would remit a little of the debt of the man who sold the lac-bangles, and he should say that he had put the money into my hands, and had seen the robbery from afar, but, being afraid, had run away. This plan I told to my brother Ram Dass; and he said that the arrangement was good, and bade me take comfort and make swift work to be abroad again.
"What a bed for a child to sleep in and in a house which calls itself respectable! There has not been a fire in that grate for many a day," glancing at the rusty fireplace. "Never since I have seen it," said Ram Dass. "The mistress of the house is not one who remembers that another than herself may be cold." The secretary was writing quickly on his tablet.
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