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Rolling his eyes in the direction of the eastern wall, he concealed the knife. "Chunda Lal!" Miska spoke wildly. "I am frightened! Please let me go, and tomorrow " "To-morrow!" Chunda Lal raised his eyes, which were alight with the awful light of fanaticism. "For me there may be no tomorrow! Jey Bhowani! Yah Allah!" "Oh, he may hear you!" whispered Miska pitifully. "Please go now.
You are in search of some one. "'Truly I am, I replied, 'and it is a matter of life or death to find the man I am seeking. "Thereupon, without further preamble, I related the story of Baji Lal and the missing Sheikh. "At the end of my narrative Munshi Khyraz such was my host's name sat silent for a spell. I knew my friend, and allowed him his own time to make any comment.
"For a moment a tense silence prevailed. "The next instant, with eerie, jubilant interruption, the waiting-woman made the very air shudder with a laugh of such shrill exultation and riotous abandon that Lal Lu, for a moment forgetful of her own extremity, gazed with unconcealed amazement and alarm upon the almost hysterical creature. "'Ha, ha! she raved; 'be not afraid, Lal Lu.
A smart groom was already half-way to St. Heliers, galloping on with a sealed letter to General Wragge, the commander of the Channel Island forces. "That will bring Anstruther over at once. He must act now!" said Hardwicke. "In two days Ram Lal will be in irons at Delhi, and I think that we will prepare a crushing little surprise for this defiant old fool and miser, Professor Andrew Fraser."
Nodren himself saw this wonder " "And if Lurgha came in the night, when all men keep to their homes and leave the outer world to the restless spirits, how did Nodren see his coming?" Lal crouched lower to the ground, his eyes darting to the bushes and the freedom they promised, then back to Ashe's firmly planted boots. "I am not a chief, Assha.
I shall know that you are near me, if " "And then?" "I will ask your aid." Her voice was very low. "And if it is written that I succeed?" Miska averted her head. "Oh, Chunda Lal ... I cannot." She hid her face in her hands. Chunda Lal stood watching her for a moment in silence, then he turned toward the cellar door, and then again to Miska.
"'Peace, Lal Lu! exclaimed the prince, who, during her initial reproaches and her subsequent explanations, had recovered his native dignity of carriage and elevation of demeanor; 'peace! Never before have I hearkened to such speech as thine. "'All my life I have had but to ask, and what I craved was mine. "'My wish has been my command.
She was a queen, and he knew that he would go through all the hells of Hind to call her his. Long ere this he would have looted the treasure chests and swept her up on his racing elephant had he dared. Sa'adi's houri! A thousand times he heard it through the night: "I am ready!" Meantime Lal Singh was hurrying on a racing camel toward the railway, toward Simla, more than a thousand miles away.
I must not drive him over into the enemy's camp. I'll have him here to breakfast, to-morrow. The jewels are safely out of the way now. For a few pounds he will watch this she-devil, and that yellow thief, Ram Lal, for me. My only danger is in their coming together. I'll get a note to him early." Seizing his chit-book, he dashed off in a frankly apologetic way a few lines. "There! That'll do!
"'It is their purpose to re-establish Dahbur Dhu, my grandfather, upon the throne of the moghuls. "'As thou knowest, I am next in succession, and Dahbur Dhu is feeble and decrepit. "'The British are not in sufficient force to withstand a combined attack. "'See, then, Lal Lu, what this means for me; what it means for thee.
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