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Updated: June 27, 2025
Back they sped, at a hand-gallop, past the Fort and the Badshahi Mosque; then, neck and neck down the long straight road, that vibrant roar growing louder with every stride. Near the Church they slackened speed. The noise had become terrific, like a hundred electric engines; and there was more than excitement in it there was fury. "Sunday was a treat to this," remarked Roy.
Here were large excited crowds streaming to and fro between the Mosque and the Mundi material inflammable as gunpowder. Here, too, were the hotheads armed with leaded sticks, hostile and defiant, shouting their eternal cries. And to-day, as yesterday, the Badshahi Mosque was clearly the centre of trouble. Exhortations to disperse peacefully were unheeded or unheard.
Roy, after early stables, was dispatched with another party, to strengthen a cavalry picket near the Badshahi Mosque, on the outskirts of the city, where things might be lively in the course of the day. Passing through Lahore, he sent his sais with a note to Rose; and, on reaching the Mosque, he found things lively enough already.
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