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True, they were warned against crossing the Frontier. A few officers, of whom Captain Raymond, who was Averil's brother-in-law, and Toby Carey, the innocent-faced subaltern, were two, saw the rising wave from afar; but they saw it vaguely as inevitable but not imminent. Captain Raymond planned to himself to send his wife and her sister to Simla before the monsoon broke up the fine weather.
A Simla funeral with the clergyman riding, the mourners riding, and the coffin creaking as it swings between the bearers, is one of the most depressing things on this earth, particularly when the procession passes under the wet, dank dip beneath the Rockcliffe Hotel, where the sun is shut out, and all the hill streams are wailing and weeping together as they go down the valleys.
Miss Anderson made with her head her little smiling gesture Simla called it very American which expressed that all chivalrous speech was to be taken for granted and meant nothing whatever; and as they turned into the Ladies' Mile gave her horse his head, and herself a chance for meditation.
He only knew he could not bear to see her, who had made Lance suffer so, till the first anguish had been dulled a little on the surface at least. "Why did'st thou promise such a beauteous day, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke!" And away up in Simla, Rose Arden was enduring her own minor form of purgatory.
'Allah kerim! said Mahbub Ah. 'Wilt thou some day sell my head for a few sweetmeats if the fit takes thee? Kim will remember till he dies that long, lazy journey from Umballa, through Kalka and the Pinjore Gardens near by, up to Simla.
The Deb Zimpun, who had not been accompanied by the Chinese Amban on this occasion, had departed; and of the few European visitors only Muriel Benson remained. Colonel Dermot had been called away to Simla, to confer with officials of the Foreign Department on matters of frontier policy.
'I am not prepared to discuss that, Madeline said, at no pains to smooth the curve out of her lip. 'Then I thought, "Perhaps you never can tell with people she will think it her DUTY to make a fuss." 'That is a possible point of view. 'I know. You think I'm an imposter on society and I ought to be exposed, and I suppose you could shut every door in Simla against me if you liked.
The despatch announcing the victory, although no doubt it was known in the native quarter, had evidently not made the slightest impression. About eleven o'clock Heideck returned to the hotel, where he found the Kennedys and Edith still conversing eagerly on the terrace. "Of course we shall not leave now," he declared. "As soon as the Russians have evacuated the north, we shall return to Simla."
Heatherlegh of Simla, volunteered to bear me company as far as our roads lay together. I accepted his offer with gratitude. My instinct had not deceived me. It lay in readiness in the Mall, and, in what seemed devilish mockery of our ways, with a lighted head-lamp. The red-whiskered man went to the point at once, in a manner that showed he had been thinking over it all dinner time.
In Simla people make morning calls in the morning instead of after dark, as in more civilised countries. Soon after dawn I received a note from Isaacs, saying that he had business with the Maharajah of Baithopoor about some precious stones, but that he would be ready to go with me to call on Mr. Currie Ghyrkins at ten o'clock, or soon after.
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