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He had fawned upon them himself in the days of his folly. "But turn a little, Huzoor," Ahmed whispered in his ear, and led him back. "Look! There is the Bibigarh where the women were imprisoned. That is the house. Through that opening Sirdar Khan and his four companions went and shut the door behind them. In that room the women of Mecca knelt and prayed for mercy. Come away, Huzoor. We have seen.
There was an Englishwoman alive in the Bibigarh, and Sirdar Khan came back in the night and took her away." "And she is in Mecca now?" cried Ahmed Ismail. "Yes. An old, old woman," said Shere Ali, dwelling upon the words with a quiet, cruel pleasure.
"Sirdar Khan is dead long since," he said, "but he was one of the five men of the bodyguard of Nana, who went into the Bibigarh at Cawnpore on July 12 of the year 1857. Have you heard of that year, Ahmed Ismail, and of the month and of the day? Do you know what was done that day in the Bibigarh at Cawnpore?"
Ahmed Ismail had carried Shere Ali off from Calcutta. He had taken him first of all to Cawnpore, and had led him up to the gate of the enclosure, wherein are the Bibigarh, where the women and children were massacred, and the well into which their bodies were flung. An English soldier turned them back from that enclosure, refusing them admittance.
Ahmed Ismail watched the light grow in Shere Ali's eyes, and a smile crept into his face, too. "Huzoor, Huzoor," he said, in a whisper of delight. He knew very well what had happened in Cawnpore, though he knew nothing of the month or the day, and cared little in what year it had happened. "There were 206 women and children, English women, English children, shut up in the Bibigarh.
At five o'clock and it is well to remember the hour, Ahmed Ismail at five o'clock in the evening the five men of the Nana's bodyguard went into the Bibigarh and the doors were closed upon them. It was dark when they came out again and shut the doors behind them, saying that all were dead. But it was not true.
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