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"I told him, sahib," the servant said, "that you cared not for such entertainments, and that he had better go elsewhere; but he insisted that you yourself had told him to come, and so I let him wait." "Has he a girl with him, Jafur?" "Yes, sahib." Bathurst strolled round to the other side of the bungalow, where Rujub was sitting patiently, with Rabda wrapped in her blue cloth beside him.
Then suddenly the old Afridi thought of something else and came back to thrust his face close to King's. "Why be a Rangar? Why be a Rajput, sahib? She loves us Hillmen better!" "Do I look like a Hillman of the 'Hills'?" asked King. "Nay, not now. But he who can work one miracle can work another. Change thy skin once more and be a true Hillman!" "Aye!" King laughed.
Nana Sahib queried; "I like Hunsa's idea; and you've heard what the Commandant says." The Dewan turned to the Bagree, "Will Ajeet consent to the Gulab acting thus?" Hunsa's answer was illuminating: "The Chief will agree to it if he can't help himself." There was a lull, each one turning this momentous thing over in his mind.
"But what if they refuse?" said I. "Do YOU refuse?" he asked. "Nay!" said I. "Nay, sahib!" "Then why judge them?" said he. So I went. Can the sahib imagine it? Two-hundred-and-three-and-thirty men, including non-commissioned officers, wet and muddy in the dark, beginning to be hungry, all asked at once to hand over all their pay if they be true men, but told to keep it if they be traitors!
By the way, Ismail Khan says he permitted you to do it." "I doctored up his cuts. Besides, I'm used to elephants." "All the same you're the first sahib I've heard Of that Badshah has allowed to touch him. Do you know, the Hindus worship him. He's a Gunesh I supposed you noticed that. I've seen some of them simply go down on their faces in the dust before him and pray to him.
"No!" cried the woman fiercely, dashing the veil from her face. "Henceforth the mother of Partab Singh Rajah's son is no longer pardah, but lives for vengeance the few hours that remain to her. Avenge me, O Jirad Sahib! avenge me, O soldiers of Partab Singh! avenge me on the man who has left me childless, the slayer of his brother!" "But when was this? What has happened?" gasped Gerrard.
The Sikh came running, and Cunningham gave him the folded note. "Have you a horse for him, Alwa-sahib?" "That has been attended to, sahib," the Sikh answered. "The Alwa-sahib has given me a wonder of a horse." "Very well, then, Jaidev Singh. Watch your chance.
I run over to Jungi's carr'ge an' tuk up the lousy old horse-blanket on the box, wrapped my head an' the rest av me in ut, an' dhrove up to where she was. "'Miss Sahib, sez I; 'going to the station? Captain Sahib's order! an' widout a sign she jumped in all among her own kit.
The ravine was steep, but there were bushes to hold on by, and although it was hot work and took a good deal longer than I expected, we at last got down to the place which I had fixed upon as likely to be the bears' home. "'Sahib, climb up top, Rahman said; 'come down through wood; no good fire at bear when he above.
I can't believe that! How was it that my orders said nothing of it then?" "That, sahib, I know not not having written out thy orders! I heard that thy orders came. I knew, as I have known this year past, what storm was brewing. I knew, too, that the heavenborn, thy wife, is here. I am thy servant, sahib, as I was thy father's servant we serve one Queen; thy honor is my honor.
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