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All four lie here on the floor of the magazine, and they recover rapidly. They are all but strong enough to stand." "Good! Then come up here, Juggut Khan!" That winding pathway up the inside of the dome took longer to negotiate than an ordinary stairway would have done, but presently the Rajput leaned against the parapet and panted beside Brown. "D'you see them? There they are!
Receivers of the public revenue, their correspondence extended all over Asia; and there are those who are of opinion that the house of Juggut Seit, including all its branches, was not worth less than six or seven millions sterling. This house became the prey of Cossim Ali Khân; but Mr.
I wonder if I'm dead yet! I wouldn't be, I know, if Bill were here! He'd ha' got us out!" "There is one of them alive!" said Juggut Khan. "So I notice!" answered Brown, with a strange dry quaver in his voice. "Go down and bring her up, please! Take three or four men with you. It won't do to bring women and a child up here and let 'em see this awful fakir and these corpses.
It was out of the question my leaving Katmandu without paying a farewell visit to the Minister's two younger brothers, Juggut and Colonel Dhere Shum Shere, so I hurried over in the afternoon to their house, which was situated in the centre of the town.
But the fact remains that every man of them was killed by the blade or point of a cavalry-saber, and that Juggut Khan broke out of the place untouched.
They lay there in all but furnace-heat, close-huddled in the darkness, and they shuddered and sobbed and blessed Juggut Khan alternately. Below them the whispering echoes sighed mysteriously through a maze of tunnels. Around them, and around their sack of food, the rats scampered.
Suddenly a foam-flecked black mare swung round a bend between two banks, and the sun shone on a polished saber-hilt. A turbaned Rajput rose in his stirrups, gazed left and right and then in front of him from the burned-out guardhouse to the baobab drew rein to a walk and waved his hand. "By all that's good and great and wonderful," said Brown aloud, "if here's not Juggut Khan again!"
There came the answering click of breech-bolts, and a little rustling as each man eased his position, and laid his elbow on his knee. "Can you find your way out through the way we came, Juggut Khan?" "Of course I can!" "Are all the women on the floor?" "Three women and the child." "Can you close the trap-door again?" "Surely! It is only opening it that is difficult." "Then close it before you go.
What next, Juggut Khan?" But Juggut Khan was bending down, and listening at the hole laid bare by the huge hinged trap. "Silence!" commanded Brown. The men held their breath, even, but not a sound came up from the darkness down below. "Are they dead, d'you suppose?" asked Brown. And, even as he asked it, some one in the darkness snuffled, and he heard a woman's voice that moaned. "Snff-snff-snff!
"Oh, as for that any other man would have done the same thing. That was nothing!" "Strange that when a white man does an honorable deed he lies about it!" said Juggut Khan. "That was not nothing, sahib, and you know it was not nothing! You know that from the heat and the exertion you were ill for more than a month afterward.
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