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"I was making signs to you the whole time, not to let him go unless he would take me with him, and he won't. He has been horrid about it." "My dear Marian, you could not possibly go, with the hot weather coming on!" cried her mother, aghast. "Nor in any weather whatever," said Sir Arthur firmly. "Your signals were lost on me, Marian, but nothing would induce me to consent to your going to Agpur.
"He wouldn't even consider it an extenuating circumstance that we've won." "Not very much of a win, since we can't follow it up." "Well, I don't know. Another fight like this will bring us in sight of Agpur." Guns mounted on the backs of camels. The Mohammedan creed. "I can't think why there was no letter for me!" lamented Marian Cowper.
As the last echoes of the firing over the grave died away, Gerrard turned to Charteris with quickened breath. "Bob," he murmured, "they have made a way for a corpse through the great wall of Agpur." In modern parlance, "gas."
They won't dare to try and stop us now." "Us? That sounds good. I hoped you would see the folly of ramming your head into the lion's mouth by going back to Agpur with Sher Singh." "He's uncommon anxious that I should been trying to persuade me all this time. First he followed me himself, and then he sent the fakir, and then Ibrahim Khan." "I'm not surprised.
"But has your Highness considered the opposition that would be aroused in Agpur if it became known?" "It is for that very reason I have broached the plan to you.
Here to his face I accuse Sher Singh of having ridden secretly to Agpur and murdered my son, his brother, and then returned hither in haste that he might give the lie to my words. Who is on my side? Who will slay this wretch for me? Jirad Sahib?" "Maharaj, I can do nothing until the whole matter has been inquired into and fairly decided."
"Not the meanest slave-girl shall ascend the pyre," repeated Gerrard. "The Rani Gulab Kur is bound by an oath imposed upon her by your father to live and watch over her son, and I shall prevent the sacrifice of any other woman." "You! and by what authority?" "By the authority of the Rani, who is regent of Agpur by the will of Rajah Partab Singh."
The province of Agpur formed an indisputable part of the Granthi dominions, but it was ruled by a feudatory prince, who was faithful to his obligations during the lifetime of the great conqueror Ajit Singh, under whose banners he had often ridden to victory, but had seen his opportunity in the feeble rule of Ajit Singh's successors.
Would his self-interest prompt him to avoid at all costs bringing down upon himself British vengeance, or to snatch the immediate advantage of wiping out all his opponents at one blow, and taking the consequences? Since this was the course likely to commend itself to the people of Agpur, there could be little doubt how he would decide.
"Not a bit of it!" said Gerrard, struggling up, only to be pressed down again by Charteris's grip upon his shoulders. "My dear Hal, you do. There's no other course open to you. Sher Singh has the big battalions, and though I admire your design of capturing Agpur with no weapons but cool cheek and shaky promises, I have a mean objection to adding my bones to the heap that would be the result.
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