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Now Amjad at that moment had the cup in his hand and his face turned to the door; and when his glance met Bahadur's eyes his hue turned pale yellow and his side-muscles quivered, so seeing his trouble Bahadur signed to him with his finger on his lips, as much as to say, "Be silent and come hither to me." Whereupon he set down the cup and rose and the damsel cried, "Whither away?"
And, as he sat musing behold, he heard the crier proclaiming Bahadur's sentence and bidding the people to see the spectacle of his hanging at midday; whereat he wept and exclaimed, "Verily, we are Allah's and to Him we are returning! He meaneth to sacrifice himself unjustly for my sake, when I it was who slew her. By Allah, this shall never be!"
Again Mahommed Gunga bowed, without a smile or a tremor on his face; again a growled order was echoed and re-echoed through the dark. The drumming stopped. "Is there oil in the bahadur's lamp?" asked Mahommed Gunga. "Probably not," said Cunningham. "I will command that " "You needn't trouble, thank you, risaldar-sahib. I sleep better in the dark.
Take your squadron and go find him, Rustum Khan! And I, sahib, obeyed my lord bahadur's orders." "Where is Lord Montdidier now?" "Who knows, sahib. Wherever the greatest need at the moment is." "Tell me what has happened." "You did well, sahib. The loosing of the horses and the shooting behind their backs put fear into the Kurds. They ceased pressing on our left wing.
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