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This lively answer coming from the usually taciturn Mulji was so unexpected that we could not help laugh-ing. Y below. Her constant bad spirits were becoming trying for our cosmopolitan little party, and so we did not press her to stay. As to us we climbed through the second opening, but this time under the leadership of Narayan.
And he rose because the Babu and Mulji had informed us that the ferry boat was ready to start, and were shouting and making signs to us to hasten. "Just let me finish," said Mr. Y , "I have nearly done. Just an additional touch or two." "Let us see your work. Hand it round!" insisted the colonel and Miss X , who had just left her haven of refuge in the carriage, and joined us still half asleep.
What I have described is a fact, but I do not take upon myself to explain it. At the gates of the pagoda we found our shoes, which we had been told to take off before going in. We put them on again, and left this "holy of holies" of the secular mysteries, with our minds still more perplexed than before. In the Fakirs' Avenue we found Narayan, Mulji and the Babu, who were waiting for us.
The Babu and Mulji left us to help the servants to transport our luggage to the ferry boat. The remainder of the party had grown very quiet and silent. Miss X dozed peacefully in the carriage, forgetting her recent fright. The colonel, stretched on the sand, amused himself by throwing stones into the water.
The Babu and Mulji offered their faces to the little hand, full of saffron, with smiles of condescending generosity.
Once in Dehra-Dun, he immediately proceeded to found a Samaj, a society as you would say, and the Dehra-Dun Arya-Samaj now counts at least two hundred members, who have renounced idol-worship and superstition for ever." "I was present," said Mulji, "two years ago in Benares, when Dayanand broke to pieces about a hundred idols in the bazaar, and the same stick served him to beat a Brahman with.
As to the spiders, in spite of their ugliness, they are perfectly harmless." "I am sure all this is because you think you will transmigrate into a black spider!" she replied, her nostrils trembling with anger. "I cannot say I do," retorted Mulji; "but if all the English ladies are as unkind as you I should rather be a spider than an Englishman."
The old lady remonstrated in an offended voice: "I thought that at least you, Mulji, were a reformer, but you are as superstitious as any idol-worshiper." "Above everything I am a Hindu," answered the "mute general." "And the Hindus, as you know, consider it sinful before nature and before their own consciences to kill an animal put to flight by the strength of man, be it even poisonous.
However trying archeological explorations may be for a person afflicted by an unusually fine presence, I felt perfectly confident that with two such Hercules-like helpers as Narayan and Ram-Runjit-Das the ascent of the Himalayas would be perfectly possible for me. Miss X came next, under the escort of Mulji, but Mr. Y stayed behind. The secret cell was a room of twelve feet square.
Vallabha's descendants are therefore all gods, and reverence is paid them as such, the number of them being now sixty or seventy. Apply these doctrines logically, and what a carnival of the senses results! A few years ago one Karsandas Mulji, a man of talent and education, was sued for libel in the court at Bombay by this sect, whose practices he had been exposing.
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