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Then, returning, he spoke between slow and deliberate mouthfuls. "The dacoits live in Beshakl's head. They will never be caught. All people know that. The cook knows, and the scullion, and Rahim Baksh here." "Nay," said the butler behind his chair, hastily. "What should I know? Nothing at all does the servant of the Presence know." "Accha," said Adam, and sucked on. "Only it is known."
This is sweet water, indeed sweet as the water of Sheoran when it comes from the snows. They are all well and pleased in the North Khoda Baksh and the others. Yar Khan has come down with the horses from Kurdistan six and thirty head only, and a full half pack-ponies and has said openly in the Kashmir Serai that you English should send guns and blow the Amir into Hell.
The little table that Pir Baksh, breathing full East in his jade-green turban, set before her, with its cloth worked in a pattern of the chenar leaves that are the symbol of Kashmir; the brown cakes made by Ahmad Khan in a miraculous kitchen of his own invention a few holes burrowed in the river bank, a smoldering fire beneath them, and a width of canvas for a roof.
Then he found himself looking into the muzzle of Amber's weapon, and became apparently rigid with terror. "Sahib !" "Make no outcry, dog, and tell me no lies, if you value your contemptible life. Why did you drug me at whose instance?" "Sahib!..." "Answer me quickly, son of vipers!" "By Dhola Baksh, hazoor, I am innocent!
Money passed upon the instant, sealing the bargain. The Malay rose to go. Dhola Baksh lifted a stony stare to Amber. "Your, pleasure, sahib?" he enquired with a thinly-veiled sneer. What need to show deference to a down-at-the-heel sailor from the Port? "I want money I want to borrow," said Amber promptly. "On your word, sahib?" "On security." "What manner of security can you offer?"
He would, however, gladly have surrendered the jewel to those who coveted it, in exchange for a promise of immunity from assassination, had he known whom to approach with the offer and been free to make it. But he must first show it to Dhola Baksh of the Machua Bazaar. After that, when its usefulness had been discharged, he would be glad of the chance to strike such a bargain....
With him came Ram Baksh, the Havildar, and the others, guarding ten men of the village of Howli all men evil affected towards the Police of the Sirkar. As prisoners they came, the irons upon their hands, crying for mercy Imam Baksh, the farmer, who had denied his wife to the Havildar, and others, ill-conditioned rascals against whom we of the Thane bore spite.
Amber waited, knowing that patience must be his portion until the bargain should be struck. Dhola Baksh himself, a lean, sharp-featured Mahratta grey with age, appraised with a single look the new customer, and returned his interest to the Malay. But Amber garnered from that glance a sensation of recognition. He wondered dimly, why; could the goldsmith have been warned of his coming?
Take horse ride, and go in the name of the Sirkar! 'Truly there be more evil-doers abroad, said Yunkum Sahib, 'but there is no need of a horse. Come all men with me. I saw the mark of a string on the temples of Imam Baksh. Does the Presence know the torture of the Cold Draw?
I would purchase witnesses by the score, and each man should give evidence, not only against Nur Ali, Wajib Ali, Abdul Latif and Elahi Baksh, but against the landholder, saying that he upon his white horse had called his men to beat me; and, further, that they had robbed me of two hundred rupees.
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