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Updated: May 14, 2025
Miska sighed and opened her eyes yet more widely. She shuddered and a slow smile appeared upon her lips. The lacquer screen making the window was pushed open and Chunda Lal leapt in over the edge. As Fo-Hi drew the yielding, hypnotised girl towards him, Chunda Lal, a gleaming kukri held aloft, ran with a silent panther step across the floor.
What do we want with that selfish man's gifts? Chunda Das, give me the paper which binds him to his promise to restore my home, that I may tear it into fragments and scatter it to the winds. Devaka, my wife, and his voice fell to a tone of great gentleness 'hand the necklet to Chunda Das, that he may restore it to the giver.
"At a word, at a sign, I have been compelled to go from Monte Carlo to Buenos Ayres; at another sign from there to Tokio! Chunda Lal has guarded me as only the women of the East are guarded. Yet, in his fierce way, he has always tried to befriend me, he has always been faithful. But ah! I shrink from him many times, in horror, because I know what he is! But I may not tell you. Look!
He had still an overpowering force at Trichinopoli, Law having nine hundred trained French soldiers, a park of fifty guns, two thousand Sepoys, and the army of Chunda Sahib, twenty thousand strong.
His manner was quite unemotional, neither harsh nor kindly, his metallic voice conveyed no more than the bare meaning of the words which he uttered. When, finally, he ceased speaking, he struck a gong which hung from a corner of the huge table, and Chunda Lal entered. "Fo-Hi addressed a brief order to him in Hindustani and a few moments later a second Chinaman walked slowly into the room."
He leapt toward Miska and she fled shrieking before him. Running around a couch which stood near the centre of the room, she sprang to the door and beat upon it madly. "Chunda Lal!" she cried "Chunda Lal!" Fo-Hi was close upon her, and she turned striving to elude him. "Oh, merciful God! Chunda Lal!" The name burst from her lips in a long frenzied scream. Fo-Hi had seized her!
Thus reinforced, and joined by one Chunda Saib, an active Indian chief, he took the field against his kinsman Nazirzing, who was supported by a body of English troops under colonel Laurence.
His hesitation continued until, three days after the surrender of D'Auteuil, a battering train reached Lawrence; whereupon Law at once surrendered, his chief stipulation being that the life of Chunda Sahib should be spared. This promise was not kept.
"And I gained my friend's side none too soon, for already a sword was pointed at his breast. Leaping on the man who held it, I thrust the weapon aside. "The patel, standing by, turned on me with a ferocious look. "'How dare you hinder justice, Chunda Das? he demanded. 'This is by decree of the panchayet. "'Your promise bound the village council as well as yourself, I retorted.
Miska swayed dizzily and extended her hands towards him. Chunda Lal glanced fearfully about him. "Did I not," he whispered, with an intense ardour in his soft voice, "did I not lay my life, my service, all I have, at your feet? Did I not vow to serve you in the name of Bhowani! He is long since gone to bring his friends who are searching from house to house along the river.
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