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"Well, Prince," Elizabeth said, "I suppose you know the women of this land better than either Captain Barlow or myself, and you're probably right, for I see in a belt at her waist the jewelled hilt of a dagger." Nana Sahib laughed: "My dear Miss Hodson, I never play with edged tools, and Captain "
"What do you make of this, Ellison?" said the Doctor early next morning. "I have just found this note in my tent; it is written in Punjabi, and in English it reads: 'If the Sahib wishes to learn where his son is he will be told if you promise to give up the other pieces of stone you found.
When Barlow had taken his place, the Chief laughed aloud, saying, "Well done, Captain Sahib; thou art perfect as a Patan; even to the manner of sitting down one would have thought that, except for a saddle, thou hadst always sat upon thy heels." Barlow smiled good humouredly, saying, "It is even so; I am Captain Barlow.
Shall I show thee how the Sahibs render thanks? and her hard eyes softened. 'I am but a wandering priest, said Kim, his eyes lighting in answer. 'Thou needest neither my blessings nor my curses. 'Nay. But for one little moment thou canst overtake the dooli in ten strides if thou wast a Sahib, shall I show thee what thou wouldst do?
Onlee I was at Simla when the wire came in about what our mutual friend said he had hidden, and old Creighton He looked to see how Kim would take this piece of audacity. 'The Colonel Sahib, the boy from St Xavier's corrected. 'Of course. He found me at a loose string, and I had to go down to Chitor to find that beastly letter.
The real difficulty lies in getting the prison room open in the first place for no doubt they are locked up at night and in the second getting her out of it, and the building." "You could lower her down from the top of the wall, sahib."
Then Peroo was at his elbow, shouting that a wire hawser had snapped and the stone-boats were loose. Findlayson saw the fleet open and swing out fanwise to a long-drawn shriek of wire straining across gunnels. "A tree hit them. They will all go," cried Peroo. "The main hawser has parted. What does the Sahib do?" An immensely complex plan had suddenly flashed into Findlayson's mind.
The man moistened his lips with his tongue and, in his abject fear of 'Estreekin Sahib', the fakir went back on every detail of his evidence said he was a poor man, and God was his witness that he had forgotten everything that Bronckhorst Sahib had told him to say. Between his terror of Strickland, the Judge, and Bronckhorst he collapsed weeping. Then began the panic among the witnesses.
Both Nana Sahib and the Dewan were pleased over what they deemed her sensible acquiescence in the scheme. As has been said, the Dewan, recognising the debased ferocity of Hunsa, had promised him the torture when he returned if Bootea had any cause of complaint.
"Have no fear, sahib!" he counselled Cunningham a moment later, laying a heavy hand on the boy's arm. "Let her keep her promises. That Hindoo pig will not keep his! We will be after her, and surely surely we will find good cause for some throat-slitting as well as the cancelling of marriage promises!"
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