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At once they concluded that they had been heard and they crouched down; the Raja went on "Plumpety, plump! down he has sat." This made them think that they had been seen and the chowkidar crept to the door to listen: he heard the Raja saying "Highways and byeways, what a big city! The kotwal is going his rounds, his rounds!"
A man of caste brings it, and it is but eggs from which no life has been taken, so you may eat. Then the chowkidar will go with you." Jungwa brought the breakfast and put it down, saying, "I will wait, Sahib, outside the bathroom door." "Here is money ten rupees for whatever is needed. Be courteous to the lady, for she is not a nautchni."
An omen of dire import all thugs believe is to hear the cry of a kite between midnight and dawn; to hear it before midnight does not matter, for the sleeper in turning over smothers the impending disaster beneath his body. But Captain Barlow had put up no such defence if evil hung over him, for when the chowkidar stood outside the door calling softly, "Captain Sahib! Captain Sahib!"
I observed the Sahib pass, but as he spoke not, I thought he had matters of import upon his mind and wished not to be disturbed." "A liar by Mother Gunga!" The chowkidar prodded him in the ribs with the end of his staff, and turning in disgust, passed out. "Come, you fool!" Barlow commanded, returning to his room, and, sitting down wearily upon the bed, held up a leg.
The officious chowkidar unearthed two punkah coolies for the occasion: and the planning of their future home, a picnic tea served on Eldred's writing-table, and practical considerations in respect of furniture and house linen though Quita had small inherent regard for either! helped, more or less, to obscure the thought of separation.
Barlow lay just as he had flopped on the bed, his tiredness having held him as one dead. Gently the soft voice of the chowkidar pulled him back out of his Nirvana of non-existence, and he called sleepily, "What is it?" "It is Jungwa," the watchman answered, "and I have received the Sahib's order to come at this hour." Then Barlow remembered. He swung his feet to the floor, saying, "Come!"
When the chowkidar came in he found the Raja repeating "See he throws up the earth, scrapety, scrape!" He at once concluded that the Raja was referring to the burglary and he fell on his knees and confessed all that had happened.
An officious chowkidar opened doors for them with a great clatter of bolts, and an elaborate air of being very much on the spot; and they stepped straight from the verandah into the one room Lenox had furnished besides the bedroom.
The bearer knelt and in silence stripped the putties from his master's limbs, unlaced the shoes, and pulled off the breeches. When Barlow had slipped on the pyjamas handed him, he said: "Tell the chowkidar to come to me at his waking from the first call of the crows."
Then he called the village headman and chowkidar and they searched and could not find the cow and they advised Kara to keep the cow and calf as it must be better than his own barren cow; but he refused and said that he would complain to the magistrate and he made the headman promise not to let the carters go until he came back.
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