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"Yes, Sahib, Guru Swami will be there, and I am known of him; and there are places where one may rest." "I'll tell the driver to hitch up," Barlow declared, rising. But she laid a detaining hand upon his arm: "Sahib, the sweetest thing in all Bootea's life was the time she rode on the horse with him. Then, too, the moon, that is the soul of Purusha, smiled upon her.
The same whisper that had come to Bootea's ears that he would ride as a Patan had been told him by the Dewan.
But Bootea's sharp eyes had been busy. She had watched the blacksmith, to whom Ajeet had paid little attention. In the faces of Hunsa and Sookdee she had caught flitting expressions of treachery. She knew that Ajeet had been guiltless of treason to the others, for she had been close to him. Besides she had, when roused, an imperious temper.
He had bestowed a handsome gift upon the Chief, ten gold mohrs; and for Bootea there had been the gift of a ruby, also ten gold mohrs. This munificence, for Hunsa and Sookdee declared it to be a rare extravagance, was not so much as reward for Bootea's nautch as a desire on the part of the astute Prince to prepare for the greater service required.
"Confusion!" he exclaimed in moral trepidation. Bootea's hand touched his arm, and she turned her face inward to hide the hot flush that lay upon it. "No, Sahib, not because of Bootea; one does not sleep in the lap of a god." "All right, girl," he answered "sorry."
To see you and not be permitted to hear your voice, nor feel your hand upon my face, would be worse than sacrifice. Bootea would rather die, slip off into death with the goodness, the sweetness of to-night upon her soul. There, where the Sahib would be, Bootea's heart would be full of evil, the evil of craving for him.
But this is heaven; and perhaps Omkar, when I make the sacrifice I mean offering will listen to Bootea's prayers, and and " "And what, Gulab?" Barlow asked, for the girl turned her face against his breast, and her voice had smothered. Their thoughts were distracted by a din in front that shattered the solemn hush of the night.
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