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At nightfall he returned to Ameera, Ameera, full of the wondrous doings of Tota; how he had been seen to clap his hands together and move his fingers with intention and purpose which was manifestly a miracle how later, he had of his own initiative crawled out of his low bedstead on to the floor and swayed on both feet for the space of three breaths.
'And they were long breaths, for my heart stood still with delight, said Ameera. Then Tota took the beasts into his councils the well-bullocks, the little gray squirrels, the mongoose that lived in a hole near the well, and especially Mian Mittu, the parrot, whose tail he grievously pulled, and Mian Mittu screamed till Ameera and Holden arrived. 'O villain! Child of strength!
But thou lovest me as much as before, though a bond is taken away? Answer! 'I love more because a new bond has come out of the sorrow that we have eaten together, and that thou knowest. 'Yea, I knew, said Ameera in a very small whisper. 'But it is good to hear thee say so, my life, who art so strong to help. I will be a child no more, but a woman and an aid to thee. Listen!
Holden had been told to keep himself in readiness to move to replace the next man who should fall. There were twelve hours in each day when he could not see Ameera, and she might die in three. He was considering what his pain would be if he could not see her for three months, or if she died out of his sight.
'Not even though the mem-log the white women of thy own blood love thee? And remember, I have watched them driving in the evening; they are very fair. 'I have seen fire-balloons by the hundred. I have seen the moon, and then I saw no more fire-balloons. Ameera clapped her hands and laughed. 'Very good talk, she said. Then with an assumption of great stateliness, 'It is enough.
Any one could enter his bachelor's bungalow by day or night, and the life that he led there was an unlovely one. In the house in the city his feet only could pass beyond the outer courtyard to the women's rooms; and when the big wooden gate was bolted behind him he was king in his own territory, with Ameera for queen.
It seemed altogether impossible that he could die, and neither Ameera nor Holden at first believed the evidence of the little body on the bedstead. Then Ameera beat her head against the wall and would have flung herself down the well in the garden had Holden not restrained her by main force. One mercy only was granted to Holden.
They sat down by the low white parapet of the roof, overlooking the city and its lights. 'They are happy down there, said Ameera. 'But I do not think that they are as happy as we. Nor do I think the white mem-log are as happy. And thou? 'I know they are not. 'How dost thou know? 'They give their children over to the nurses.
For her, and the withered hag her mother, he had taken a little house overlooking the great red-walled city, and found, when the marigolds had sprung up by the well in the courtyard and Ameera had established herself according to her own ideas of comfort, and her mother had ceased grumbling at the inadequacy of the cooking-places, the distance from the daily market, and at matters of house-keeping in general, that the house was to him his home.
He had neither help, comfort, nor sympathy; and Ameera at the end of each weary day would lead him through the hell of self-questioning reproach which is reserved for those who have lost a child, and believe that with a little just a little more care it might have been saved. 'Perhaps, Ameera would say, 'I did not take sufficient heed. Did I, or did I not?
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