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"Then I was tired out a more wearying morning and afternoon I had seldom experienced and I bargained in my own mind, and even mentioned it to Ajeet Singh, that if there was not much of an audience I should leave them to bear the brunt of the burden. "As we drove up the appearance of things seemed to confirm my anticipations. Everything was silent.
If you will refuse the rations now, I will say that you have promised that we will not be taken up if we make a decoity; then Ajeet will agree, because it is our profession." "I must go," Nana Sahib declared; "this Hunsa seems to have brains as well as ferocity."
"I have brought this to the Sahib," Bootea said as she drew a paper from her breast and passed it to the Captain. It was the pardon the Resident had given that morning to Ajeet Singh. Barlow, though startled, schooled his voice to an even tone as he asked: "Where did you get this where is Ajeet?"
The Captain's fingers unclasped from the papers in his pocket, and now were beating a tattoo on his knee. "Elizabeth!" the father gasped, "do you know what you are saying?" His cold grey eyes were wide with astonishment. "Did you hear all of Ajeet Singh's story?" "Yes, all of it."
He had a wealth of jewels pearls the size of a bird's egg, emeralds the size of a betel nut, and diamonds that were like stars. This was true for the merchant had paid the duty as he passed the border into Mahrattaland. Ajeet gave the yogi two rupees for food, though, viewing the animated skeleton, it seemed a touch of irony.
He would not commit himself as to making a decoity, for when they had seized upon the Chief for the crime Ajeet could not then say that the Dewan had instigated it; there would be only Hunsa's word for this, and, of course, he would deny that the Minister was the father of the scheme.
In her thoughts there was nothing of a serious intent; just that to look upon him, perhaps to see in his eyes a friendly pleasure, would be intoxication. So Ajeet took her to the palace to dance, but, of course, he had to cool his heels without the durbar chamber smoke the hooka and chat with other natives while the one of desire was within.
"She will be in the hands of Nana Sahib," Ajeet answered; "and because of that I have come to confess so your Honour will save my life from him for he will make accusation that I was Chief of those who killed the soldiers of the British; and that the Sahib will cause to have returned to me the Gulab."
But now he would betray the Sahibs, that is why I have brought back the paper of protection." "Will they kill Ajeet?" Barlow asked. "I will tell the Sahib what is," the girl answered, drawing her sari over her curled-in feet, and leaning one arm on Barlow's chair. "The decoity that was committed last night was, as Ajeet feared, because of treachery on the part of the Dewan.
Ajeet assumed the haughty condescending manner of a Rajput prince, and explained, with a fair scope of imagination that the patil was a man of ungovernable temper who gave protection to thieves and outlaws, that the village itself was a nest for them.
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