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When at last the face was raised I recognized the dhobi of the village that nestled under the hill on which was perched the castle of the zemindar. "'O thou washer of clothes, I asked, 'what is thy plaint? "'Protector of the poor, replied my visitor, 'behold my bandaged feet, beaten with rods until they are swollen and torn.
I was wondering what we should do for horses; for there are but few in the city, as most of those owning them sent them away, with their valuables, on hearing of Holkar's approach." "The zemindar is a generous man, indeed. He has, as you heard, presented me with the horse that I am riding. It is certainly a splendid animal and, though my own was a good one, this is far better.
This he presented to me, with a bow of deference to my superior understanding of such things. "'This time I have come to you, he said, 'a man of learning and of justice, not like unto the cruel zemindar. Does the paper tell why I should have suffered such shame and pain at his hands? "I had unrolled the scroll, the folds of which showed that it had served as a wrapping for the ring.
The rajah and their fellow-countrymen endeavored in vain to dissuade them, but the former, finding that they were determined, gave them dresses as native women, furnished them with a guide, and sent them across the river in a boat for they were on the Oude side with a message to a zemindar there to help them forward.
There is a secret which my father entrusted to me before he died, bidding me to guard it jealously until occasion for its application might arise. And behold now the appointed hour has come. "'You know the council chamber of our lord, the zemindar, with its three-and-thirty columns of white marble.
The oath of a Rajput, of a Rangar, of a soldier, of a zemindar of the House of Kachwaha; the oath of a man to a man, sahib; the promise of thy father's friend to thy father's son! Bahadur" he drew himself to his full height, and clicked his spurs together "I am thy servant!" Cunningham saluted.
I am the father of one, and the other is my niece," he said to the zemindar; "and I owe their lives so far to you.
For years these exactions or feudal payments by the ryot to the Zemindar have been commuted by the factories into a lump sum in cash, when villages have been taken in farm, and this sum has been paid to the Zemindar as an enhanced rent. In the majority of cases it has not been levied from the cultivators, but the whole expense has been borne by the factory.
"It is a little thing I ask of your Excellency." "It is not a great thing, to be sure," Ralston admitted. He looked at the zemindar and laughed. "But I could tell the story rather well," he said doubtfully. "It would be an amusing story as I should tell it. Yet well, we will see," and he changed his tone suddenly. "Interpret to me that present as it is interpreted in the villages of Chiltistan."
The zemindar sat by while he ate his meal, and Harry gave him a short account of the manner in which he had effected his escape. The former, in turn, related the events of the siege; adding that spies had brought in the news, late in the afternoon, that Holkar would march away in the morning, as he had heard that the English army was but two days distant.
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