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Updated: July 13, 2025
Once here, and Karowlee's hopes raised over getting territory, if they then go back without accomplishing the task, that rapacious old man will cast them into prison." So when the Bagree leaders, closeted with Baptiste and the Dewan in a room of the latter's bungalow, learned what was expected of them they, to put it mildly, received a shock.
Barlow had a curious impression that the girl's grey eyes had turned yellow as she made this observation. "Ah, Captain, glad you've come," Hodson said, rising and extending a hand across a flat-topped desk. "I'm I'm well pull a chair. This is one Ajeet Singh," and he drooped slightly his thin, lean, bald head toward the Bagree Chief, who stood stiff and erect, one arm in a sling.
In Hindi he said: "Ajeet Singh, if you are a Bagree decoit you are in the protection of Bhowanee, and you make oath to her." "Yes, Sahib." "This is Bhowanee, that is your name for Kali, and with obeisance to her make oath that you will tell the truth." "Yes, Sahib, it is the proper way." "Proceed."
Though filled with a sense of shuddering horror, he was compelled involuntarily to admit that it had been a most just punishment; less brutal, even more impressive almost taking on the aspect of a religious execution than if the Bagree had been tortured to death; hacked to pieces by the tulwars of the outraged Pindaris.
He rose, and took from a little cabinet a small alabaster figure of Kali which he placed upon the table, saying in English to Barlow, "When these decoits confess to be made Approvers, half of the confession is lies, for to swear them on our Bible is as little use as playing a tin whistle. If he's a Bagree this is his goddess."
Sookdee and the others, without apparent motive, contrived it so that a Bagree or two sat between each of the merchant's men, engaging them in pleasant speech, tendering tobacco. And, as if in modesty, some of the Bagrees sat behind the retainers.
With the other hand she held out from contact with her limbs the muslin sari that was crimsoned where the blood of the Bagree had fountained when she drew forth her knife. Barlow darted forward as Bootea reeled and caught her with an arm.
As I rushed to the two and cried to them to be gone, a ball from a short gun in the hands of some Bagree smote me upon the shoulder, and this, " he again touched the shirt-of-mail, "and my shoulder-blade turned it from my heart. Even then Hunsa thought I was dead.
And then one day there came to the Bagree camp a mysterious message.
Sookdee stared in affrighted silence, and Hunsa's bellow of rage was stilled by Ajeet, who whirling upon him, the jade-handled knife in his grip, commanded: "Still your clamour! The Gulab has but seen the truth. I, also, know that, but a soldier may not speak as may one of his women-kind." There was a sudden hush. A tremor of apprehension had vibrated from Bagree to Bagree; the jamadars felt it.
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