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A foreigner in this country is nothing better than a wild man, without a servant." "I have one " Skag spoke with inward satisfaction: " Bhanah the old cook, who did serve Police " "Not Police Commissioner Hichens' Bhanah?" "Yes." "How?" "He came to me." "Did you negotiate with him?" "No." "Then will you kindly tell me, why?" "I do not know." There was a marked pause. The eyes had become wide.
N.B. The Sahib is to enquire of his servant Bhanah what is the native meaning of "walk softly." He will find Bhanah entirely trustworthy in all matters of information. Skag looked up and the old cook spoke: "I, who am speaking to Sanford Hantee Sahib, am Bhanah entered into covenant before the gods that I am his servant to serve him with my strength, so long as I endure to live.
Had Bhanah been along, there could have been no possible explanation. . . . He was walking toward the city, but his eyes were called back again. Carlin had come to the gate. She held up her right arm full and straight her signal always, such an impulse of joy in it. He waved and made a broken sort of gesture toward Hurda, as if he had forgotten something.
As Bhanah came to him, he saw more than Bhanah animate upon the features like someone who had belonged always, whom he had known for ages, whom Carlin had always known. So many things struck him differently now; as if they belonged not just to this crisis, but to a crisis of eons. Yet externals in the main were so trifling. Carlin didn't eat; people seemed to take that as significant.
Their hands met; and Skag's soul rose up without words, to answer a white flame in the inscrutable eyes. Early the following morning, Sanford Hantee Sahib said to his servant: "Bhanah, what do you know about cheetahs?" "Such little things as a man may know, Sahib." "Are you willing to give some of it to me?" "All that I am and all that I can, belongs to my master." "Is that the regular "
Be certain, Nels knows." "That's good. I'm in this country to get acquainted with animals " "But to the preserving of men?" "When I find it's necessary, I've no objection then " Bhanah stooped quickly and touched Skag's feet. "Vishnu, the Great Preserver, has sent another Hand to this my India." Skag looked into the man's face and found high light in it.
Bhanah and Nels had a comfortable lodge to themselves, and there was a tiny summerhouse at the far end of the lawn that had been an ideal of Carlin's when she was small. The playhouse had but one door, which was turned modestly away from the great Highway. It was vined and partly sequestered in garden growths, its threshold to the west.
If my master will tell us his place, we will come to him in the morning." Skag told them. The recognition of Nels as a personality amused him; but he did not quarrel with it. The Hunting Cheetah Since Bhanah and Nels had come to him, Skag had fallen into the way of taking Nels out quite early for a full day's tramp through the broken shelving Ghats.
Bhanah will tell you when and where to watch it; but be careful and get under good roofing in time. And then, after the tracks are set right, if you must reach Hurda in order to come back with Carlin . . . Man, God help you if you do not give my sister the best of your gifts!" "Why, I belong to her "
Give me permission and I will call him." Skag looked into Bhanah's eyes, finding the ancient friendship there; then he said only one word: "Hurry!" Bhanah leaped away across the lawn and Skag turned to stand by Carlin's side. The silence seemed absolute now; the whiteness absolute. He remembered that she had gone down into shadows. He bent his head toward her breast and looked down.
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