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Updated: May 20, 2025
Towards the end of the month I entered the service of the Republic in the capacity of ensign in the Bala regiment, then at Corfu; the young man who had left the regiment through the magical virtue of my one hundred sequins was lieutenant, but the secretary of war objected to my having that rank for reasons to which I had to submit, if I wished to enter the army; but he promised me that, at the end of the year, I would be promoted to the grade of lieutenant, and he granted me a furlough to go to Constantinople.
This matter was going to be settled definitely, here and now. So long as Umballa lived, a dread menace hung above Kathlyn's head. So, then, Umballa must die. Bala Khan was for beginning the warfare at once, but Bruce argued him out of this idea. Let them first learn what Umballa intended to do. There was no need of shedding blood needlessly.
Compare Sans., jan, to beget. Lat., gen-itus. German, kin-d. Eng., kin. Compare Sans., bãla, boy, child; bhri, to bear children, &c. Greek, polos, foal. Lat., pullus, filius. Eng.,foal, &c., &c. Sans., chasbaka. Sans., bajana. Compare Lat., vas. Eng., vase. Sans., kumbha. Sans., chamasa; from Sans., cham, to eat. Sans., machcha. Sans., sãka.
"A white elephant," mused the colonel. "Do you know it for a fact that this Bala Khan has a white elephant?" he called across to Ramabai. "I have never seen it Sahib. It is what they say." "A pair of mottled ears is the nearest I ever came to seeing a white elephant, and I've hunted them for thirty years, here, in Ceylon, in Burma, in Africa.
They were for use on the shies; it struck me as a large supply, and the economical division of the qualities as ingenious. Rather hard on Bala, for the summer was so abnormally wet that these lines would have been true of any part of England.
Umballa got the best of us. We were tricked by the truant elephant. He has taken Kathlyn back toward Allaha." "And so shall we return!" Ahmed called his weary men. His idea was to fill the elephant saddle-bags with gold and stones, leave it in trust with Bala Khan, who should in truth this time take his tulwar down from the wall. He divided his men, one company to guard and the other to labor.
They were permitted to lie down in the woods, and three people remained with them until they had rested themselves; but they did not arrive at the town until past midnight; and were then so much exhausted, that the Slatee gave up all thoughts of taking them across the woods in their present condition, and determined to return with them to Bala, and wait for another opportunity.
I turned up a street, which led to the east, and soon found myself beside the lake at the north- west extremity of which Bala stands. It appeared a very noble sheet of water stretching from north to south for several miles. As, however, night was fast coming on I did not see it to its full advantage.
A messenger has arrived from Bala Khan. Your daughter and Bruce Sahib are alive, and, more, on the way to Allaha in native guise. Be of good cheer, Ramabai." And Umballa, as he lifted his fruit dish at supper, espied another of those sinister warnings. "Beware!"
As for Matthews, he celebrated the coronation at Dizful, in bed. And by the time he had slept off his fag, Bala Bala and the Father of Swords and the green chest and the ingenious Magin looked to him more than ever like figures of myth. He was too little of the timber out of which journalists, romancers, or diplomats are made to take them very seriously.
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