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The men sent word to know what was being revealed through two long hours of talk, and Chatar Singh went back to bid them have patience. "Is there trouble?" they asked, and he answered "Aye!" "Tell our sahib we stand behind him!" they answered, and Chatar Singh brought that message and I think it did Ranjoor Singh's heart good, not that he would not have done his best in any case.
In the South we fought with Hyder Ali, a trooper who gathered under him a marauding band, and by courage and craft rose to being a sovereign, and with his son Tippoo Sahib.
"'The curse won't come now, Cushai, I said, laughing. 'I've killed the white tiger. "'Killed the white tiger, sahib! Allah bless you for that! Cushai replied. "'But don't laugh too soon. Nahra was a clever man, wonderfully clever; he did not speak empty words, and as his eyes wandered to the dark hills again I fancied a shadow darted along the sky, and the curse came back to my ears.
A trooper caught sight of Ranjoor Singh standing beside some bullock carts, and passed the word. I, too, saw him. He was with a Muhammadan bunnia, and was dressed to resemble one himself. The trooper who was first to see him a sharp-eyed man he died at Ypres Singh means lion, sahib now recognized the man who stood with him.
"Tie up your 'orse," shouted Ortheris, "an' come on, sir. We're all goin' 'ome in this 'ere bloomin' boat." From the bridge-head to the Forest Officer's bungalow is but a step. The mess-man was there, and would see that a man held my horse. Did the Sahib require aught else a peg, or beer?
He is stupid enough, and nearly blunt enough, to be an Englishman. He is just of the very caliber to fool a German! Trust me, sahib I, who picked the man who " "That'll do!" said the general; and Yasmini laughed again like the tinkling of a silver bell. There came then a soft rap on the door. It opened about six inches, and a maid whispered. "Wait!" ordered Yasmini. "Come through! Wait here!"
He is thirteen three, Sahib, plays polo, goes in a cart, carries a lady and Holy Kurshed and the Blessed Imams, it is the Sahib himself! My heart is made fat and my eye glad. May you never be tired! As is cold water in the Tirah, so is the sight of a friend in a far place. And what do you in this accursed land?
Not till then did he explain what he required of them. The Gujarati seemed overcome by the selection of himself for this mission. "You are kind to me, sahib," he said. "I do not deserve it; but I will serve you to my life's end." There was in the man's tone a fervency which touched Desmond at the time, and which he had good cause afterwards to remember.
Bhurtpoor, like Deeg, stood on a plain, surrounded by swamps and morasses; the situation having been chosen from the difficulties these offered to the advance of an enemy. After proceeding for five miles farther, Abdool, who was riding with Harry, said: "I do not know, sahib, but it seems to me, by the sound of the horses' hoofs, that we have left the track."
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.
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