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"The name only had slipped my memory. Tibu's gang's gallery is here." "A lie," said Kundoo. "There have been no galleries in this place since my day." "Three paces was the depth of the ledge," muttered Janki, without heeding "and oh, my poor bones! I have found it! It is here, up this ledge, Come all you, one by one, to the place of my voice, and I will count you,"
Janki, the ayah, leering chastely behind her veil, turned grey, and the bearer left the Court. He said that his Mamma was dying, and that it was not wholesome for any man to lie unthriftily in the presence of 'Estreekin Sahib'. Biel said politely to Bronckhorst, 'Your witnesses don't seem to work.
Custom stronger even than the Jimahari Company dictated that Janki, by right of his years, should manage these things, and should, also, work despite his blindness. In Indian mines where they cut into the solid coal with the pick and clear it out from floor to ceiling, he could come to no great harm.
"Without doubt God gives the blind knowledge," said Kundoo, with a look at Unda. "Let it be as you say. I, for my part, do not know where lies the gallery of Tibu's gang, but I am not a withered monkey who needs oil to grease his joints with." Kundoo swung out of the hut laughing, and Unda giggled. Janki turned his sightless eyes toward his wife and swore.
'The name only had slipped my memory. Tibu's gang's gallery is here. 'A lie, said Kundoo. 'There have been no galleries in this place since my day. 'Three paces was the depth of the ledge, muttered Janki without heeding 'and oh, my poor bones! I have found it! It is here, up this ledge. Come all you, one by one, to the place of my voice, and I will count you.
On the strength of this concession and his accumulated oil-savings, Janki Meah took a second wife a girl of the Jolaha main stock of the Meahs, and singularly beautiful. Janki Meah could not see her beauty; wherefore he took her on trust, and forbade her to go down the pit. He had not worked for thirty years in the dark without knowing that the pit was no place for pretty women.
"I say," said the Assistant to the Manager, a week later, "do you recollect Germinal?" "Yes. 'Queer thing, I thought of it In the cage when that balk went by. Why?" "Oh, this business seems to be Germinal upside down. Janki was in my veranda all this morning, telling me that Kundoo had eloped with his wife Unda or Anda, I think her name was." "Hillo!
The pony knew that place, and when, after six years, the Company changed all the allotments to prevent the miners from acquiring proprietary rights, Janki Meah represented, with tears in his eyes, that were his holdings shifted, he would never be able to find his way to the new one. "My horse only knows that place," pleaded Janki Meah, and so he was allowed to keep his land.
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