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If you will help me, I will make it worth your while. Let us understand one another. I offer you a five-pound note to say nothing of all this to him." The sallow clerk's fishy eye glistened. "You can depend upon me," he answered, with an acquiescent nod. I judged that he did not often get the chance of earning some eighty rupees so easily.
This is worth three hundred." "I am no thief," I answered, "but a prince of good blood, and I am hungry." "Prince of wandering beggars," said that money-lender, "I have no money with me, but go to my house with my clerk and he will give you two rupees eight annas, for that is all I will lend." So I went with the clerk to the house, and we talked on the way, and he gave me the money.
'Perhaps, she said, 'if I had been able to have a child it would have been different. But fate was unkind and no baby came, and her husband became more and more angry with her. 'And yet I did all for the best, thakin; I always tried to act for the best. My husband has sisters at Henzada, and they write to him now and then, and say, "Send ten rupees," or "Send five rupees," or even twenty rupees.
Cleek sucked in his breath and, twitching round, stared at the dim figure leaning forward in the dim light. "By George!" he said to himself; "if I know anything, I ought to know the slouch and the low-sunk head of the Apache! And the woman comes! And a man comes! And there are five lacs of rupees! I wonder! I wonder!
She had never known anybody who did not understand prices. Poor Armour, the colour of a live coal, named one hundred rupees. 'One hundred rupees! Oh, my dear boy, I can never afford that! You must, you must really give it to me for seventy-five. It will break my heart if I can't have it for seventy-five. 'Give me the pleasure, said Armour, 'of making you a present of it.
Go to the stables, and choose any horse you like except my first charger. Here here is money; you may need some. Count that, will you. How much is it? Four hundred rupees? Write out a receipt for it. Now, good luck to you, Juggut Khan.
"You must purchase another, and a good one, with showy equipments. You will, of course, charge that and all other expenses, and your appointment will be a thousand rupees a month. I have no doubt the rajah will lodge you handsomely. Should he not do so, you had best encamp outside the town. Do not put up with any inferior lodging."
Its value to me is beyond all money, for it represents my honour and the good faith which I owe to those who employ me. Me Dain, my good friend, I shall give you ten thousand rupees." "Oh, sahib," cried the Burman, overcome with the vision of so much wealth, "it is too much for your servant." "Not a penny," said Mr. Haydon earnestly, "not a penny too much.
Lurgan Sahib had given him five rupees a splendid sum as well as the assurance of his protection if he worked. Unlike Mahbub, Lurgan Sahib had spoken most explicitly of the reward that would follow obedience, and Kim was content. If only, like the Babu, he could enjoy the dignity of a letter and a number and a price upon his head! Some day he would be all that and more.
Here the representative of the London lodging-house is to be found in the form of what are called "chawls," large buildings, several storeys high, divided up into small rooms, which are let off to families, at a rental of from three rupees a month and upwards. Very commonly the same room serves for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating.
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