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"Whether it is due to Soomwar Mull's original notions of truth, or to old Pertaub Sing's own favourable impressions, it seems to be certain that I have made a conquest!" he wrote to Charteris the next evening.
I will, in any case, send word to you, either that I have found him, or that I have given up all hope and have abandoned my efforts." The next morning a lad brought Dick a message, from Pertaub, that he had fulfilled all his commissions; and on the following morning, Annie Mansfield again came to Dick's room. "Everything is going on well, Annie," Dick said, as he shook hands with her.
Possibly Pertaub may be able to arrange to send them down, only entrusting a portion at a time to a messenger, so that, if he got into trouble, we should only lose what he had upon him. "We will put the caskets into our box, and lock it up for the present, and take them down to Pertaub tomorrow evening, after it gets dark.
"Then he had better get them," the Rajah said. "What do they contain, Dick?" he asked, as Surajah left the room. "All sorts of things necklaces and rings. Some of them are stones, as if they had been taken out of their settings. Pertaub said they had done this because they thought, perhaps, that Tippoo would not allow the jewels they had worn to be sold, or worn by anyone else."
It lies about a hundred yards back from the road. I will go over and arrange with him that, when two horses arrive, they shall be placed in his stalls, and remain there until one arrives who will say to him, after greeting, the word 'Madras'. To him he is to deliver the horses at once, whether he comes by night or day." "That would do admirably, Pertaub.
She will go with us in the disguise of a boy. This Ibrahim is getting for us. We are going to buy a couple of horses for them, and shall make straight down the ghauts, where I shall leave the girl in my mother's care." "It is a good action," the Hindoo said gravely. "Now, in the first place, Pertaub, would you like to go with us?
Do not waste any time, for we shall start immediately after our meal." As soon as the man had left, Dick said to Surajah: "I will hurry down to the town and see Pertaub. You had best remain here, in case Tippoo should send for us to give us final instructions.
Some of these merchants here may be honest enough for us to leave the jewels in their care, without anxiety; but as they themselves may, at any moment, be seized and compelled to give up their last penny, these things would be no safer with them than with us. "As to Pertaub, I have absolute faith in him, but he himself is liable to be seized at any moment.
It will save us half an hour's work; and besides, I am glad to say goodbye again. "All has gone well. This is the young lady." "She is well disguised," Pertaub said, bowing his head to Annie. "She looks so like a boy that, even now you tell me, I can scarce believe she is a white girl. Truly you can go on without fear that anyone will suspect her."
"We have come for some packs, that have been sent by friends of ours at Seringapatam to your care," Dick said, making as he spoke the sign that Pertaub had taught him, as enabling those who were Hindoos to recognise each other, at once. "We were to use the word 'Madras' as a sign that we were the parties to whom they were consigned."
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