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Updated: May 5, 2025
They had to drive slower in the Chandni Chowk, for the ancient Street of the Silversmiths that is now the mart of Delhi was ablaze with crude colors, and was thronged with more people than ever since '57. There were a thousand signs worth studying by a man who could read them.
Then, with a sweep across the plain to the south and by a slight ascent, I reach the gate of the city which opens into the Chowk or principal street the street traversed in disguise by the dauntless Kavanagh when he went out from the garrison to convey information and afford guidance to Sir Colin Campbell on his first advance.
Sahib, not more than twenty minutes have elapsed, and I saw this with my own eyes!" "Saw what where?" "Where? Have I not said where? My God, I am so upset as to be losing sense of all proportion! Where? At German place of business Sigelman and Meyer in small street leading out of Chandni Chowk.
They reached Yasmini's from the corner farthest from the Chandni Chowk, and sprang out of the carriage the instant that the risaldar drew rein. "Wait within call!" commanded Kirby, and the risaldar raised his whip. Then, with his adjutant at his heels, Colonel Kirby dived through the gloomy opening in a wall that Yasmini devised to look as little like an approach to her or heaven as possible.
The kalabatoon was then reeled off on a separate reel, and the process continually repeated. We stopped at the office of our banker for a moment on our way along the Chandni Chowk in order to effect some changes of money.
The Chandni Chowk was a-bubble with strange and stirring rumours; but the day waned and the evening waned and no Dyán appeared. On Monday morning still no word: but news, so tremendous, flashed half across the world, that Dyán and his mysterious defection flickered like a match at midday. The War was over virtually over.
"James, I owe you three hundred rupees, and I am going to add seven hundred more. We've been fighting this old top for six years together, and you've been a good servant and a good friend; and I'll take you with me as far as this fortune will go, if you say the word." "Ah, Sahib, I am much sorry. But Delhi calls, and I go. A thousand rupees will make much business for me in the Chandney Chowk."
So the risaldar drove across the Chandni Chowk, fighting his way with the aid of whip and voice, and made a wide circuit through dark lanes where groups of people argued at the corners, and sometimes a would-be holy man preached that the end of the world had come.
"Wouldn't be wise! You mustn't!" The man in drab silk shook his head. "Now, suppose you were to arrest Ranjoor Singh " Kirby laughed outright. "Suppose the Chandni Chowk were Regent Street!" he jeered. "Last night," said the man in drab silk, "Risaldar-Major Ranjoor Singh visited Yasmini, leaving six or more of the men of his squadron waiting for him in the street outside.
The seniors recalled the memory of the retribution Pollock exacted how he came, destroyed Istalif, set a 'mark' on Cabul by sending the great bazaar in fragments into the air, and then departed. This time Istalif was not compromised; if Roberts Sahib should be determined to blow up the Char Chowk again, why, that infliction must be endured.
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