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Updated: June 22, 2025
Good-bye but for the last time swear to me that, should matters so turn out, as soon as you receive the other half of the ivory crucifix I have just given you, you will keep your promise." "I have sworn it by Bowanee, my lord." "Don't forget that, to make all sure, the person who will deliver to you the other half of the crucifix is to say come, what is he to say?"
"We all belong to Bowanee," answered the Malay. "What is there yet to do? I am ready." Whilst he thus spoke, his face was turned towards the door of the hut; on a sudden, he said in a low voice: "Here is Djalma. He approaches the cabin. Mahal has not deceived us."
"They have just discovered, in British India, a community whose members call themselves 'Brothers of the Good Work, or 'Phansegars, which signifies simply 'Thugs' or 'Stranglers; these murderers do not shed blood, but strangle their victims, less for the purpose of robbing them, than in obedience to a homicidal vocation, and to the laws of an infernal divinity named by them 'Bowanee.
Give me your hand, brother, for you also are hunters of men." "But once more, sir, understand, that we only meddle with the will, the mind," said Rodin. "And what are bodies deprived of soul, will, thought, but mere corpses? Come come, brother; the dead we make by the cord are not more icy and inanimate than those you make by your discipline. Take my hand, brother; Rome and Bowanee are sisters."
"He would have made himself the chief of the Company of Jesus, to destroy it," said he; "with me, the Company of Jesus stands in the place of Bowanee. I have obeyed the cardinal!" Should this appear incredible, we would remind the reader of the marvellous discoveries in the art of embalming particularly Dr. Gannal's.
"In this letter," resumed Faringhea, "Van Dael tells you that the greatest glory of your Order is to make 'a corpse of man. Our work also is to make corpses of men. Man's death is sweet to Bowanee." "But sir," cried Rodin, "M. Van Dael speaks of the soul, of the will, of the mind, which are to be brought down by discipline." "It is true you kill the soul, and we the body.
And these two great General Sahibs have had her spy upon this old man, Hugh Fraser the man who would steal away with the Queen's jewels. They would have them. By Bowanee! I will have them first! For I can hide them where they never will find them! I will trade them off to the Princes, who know the old jewels of Oude. They will give me double weight, treble value."
Those of our band labor also in divers countries, for the glory of Bowanee." "And who are these sons of Bowanee, M. Faringhea?" "Men of resolution, audacious, patient, crafty, obstinate, who, to make the Good Work succeed, would sacrifice country and parents, and sister and brother, and who regard as enemies all not of their band!"
"Well," said the black, "he promised to get Djalma to come hither this evening, and, once amongst us, he must needs be our own." "Was it not the Smuggler who told us to order the Malay to enter the ajoupa of Djalma, to surprise him during his sleep, and, instead of killing him as he might have done, to trace the name of Bowanee upon his arm?
And when he was told that the son had acted with unusual skill, who can doubt that his tears of joy were sincere and humble tears of thankfulness? At least Bowanee knew. We couldn't afford to keep it. I hope the gods have taken its little soul. At any rate it is sure of salvation hereafter."
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