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Tom Tripe displayed the signature, and Chamu's clammy face turned ashen-gray. "And," said Yasmini, fixing Chamu with angry blue eyes, "the commissioner sahib is on the veranda! For the reputation of the English he would cause an example to be made of servants who steal from guests in the house of foreigners." Chamu capitulated utterly, and wept. "What shall I do? What shall I do?" he demanded.
He could not imagine why, but he had noticed that insolence to Blaine himself was fairly safe, Blaine being super-humanly indifferent as long as Mrs. Blaine was shown respect, even exceeding the English in the absurd length to which he carried it. It was a mad world in Chamu's opinion. He went and fetched the hamal, who slunk through his task with the air of a condemned felon.
He sent Tom Tripe packing, with a flea in his ear for Chamu's benefit, and a whispered word of friendship.
Tess smiled at the man for encouragement, but Chamu's instant jealousy was so obvious that she regretted the mistake. "Now call up the beggars and feed them," she ordered. "Feed them? They will not eat. It is contrary to caste." "Nonsense. They have no caste. Bring bread and feed them." "There is no bread of the sort they will eat." "I know exactly what you mean.
And she was worst of all, she wept, and wept, and wept, till at last they turned her out, and Chamu took her away. And then it was, I think, she died. It hurt her so to go away, she must have died; and Chamu took her and carried her away when she was dead. And she was so terrified of Chamu. Atirupa, Atirupa, save, O save me from Chamu's eyes.
If the tale Yasmini told him on the morning of her first visit to Tess had not been enough to determine Mukhum Dass, now, with the lost title-deed recovered, the conviction that Gungadhura wanted the place for secret reasons, and Chamu's objections to confirm the whole wild story, he became as set on his course and determined to wring the last anna out of the mystery as only a money-lender can be.
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