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She said that Miss Daleham had confided to her that they were engaged, but wanted it kept secret for a time until he could get another job." "Then, my boy, you'll be pleased to hear it's a damned lie," said Payne impressively. "Miss Daleham would never marry a black man." The boy's face lit up. "I am glad!" he cried impulsively. "I'm very, very sorry, Miss Daleham, for helping to spread the lie.
"But do come and see us before then." "I shall be delighted to. By the way, are you going to the gymkhana on the polo-ground tomorrow?" "Yes, we are." Charlesworth turned to Noreen. "In that case, Miss Daleham, perhaps you'll be good enough to nominate me for some of the events. As you have only just got here you won't have been snapped up yet by other fellows. I know it's hopeless to expect Mrs.
He held her firmly as they were borne through the darkness that now filled the forest; for the swift-coming Indian night had fallen. "Keep well down, Miss Daleham," he said. "You must be on your guard against being swept off the pad by the low branches."
Chunerbutty had reproached him with forgetting what he, the now despised Hindu, had done for him in the past, and complained sadly that Miss Daleham looked down on him for the colour of his skin. So Fred felt that he must choose between two friends and that honour demanded his clinging to the older one.
Parker was furious because the information had failed to reach him. He had missed the opportunity of marching a party of his men down to the rescue of Miss Daleham and his commanding officer, and he was not consoled by the latter pointing out to him that it would have been impossible for him to have arrived in time for the fight.
Dermot went out on the front verandah which looked towards the coolie lines and put up the glasses. "Some men on horses. Yes, and a motor-car coming slowly behind them," he said to Daleham and his sister, who had followed him out. "It's the Rajah and his escort, I suppose. Things will begin to move now." When the newcomers reached the village a storm of shouting arose.
"These jungles are full of them, Miss Daleham," said another planter. "We've had two men on our garden killed already this year." "The Forest Officer told me that several guards and wood-cutters have been attacked lately," joined in another. "One brute has held up the jungles around Mendabari for months." "Oh, don't tell us any more, Mr. Lane," cried Mrs. Rice with affected timidity.
Dermot acquainted the Mohammedan servants with the contents, to show them that there was no hope for them, so that they would fight to the death. The little boy was told that there was no answer, and Daleham gave him a few copper coins; but the scared child dropped them as though they were red hot and scampered back to the village as fast as his little legs would carry him.
Brahmins who, being of the priestly caste, claim to be semi-divine rather than mere men, will take up professions or clerical work, but with all his experience of India he had never heard of any of them engaging in such manual labour. "How do you get them?" he asked. "Oh, they come here to ask for employment themselves," replied Daleham.
The pangs of hunger reminded him that he had had no food since the early morning cup of tea at the planter's bungalow where he had passed the night, for he had hoped to breakfast at Malpura. It occurred to him that his companion must be in the same plight. "Are you hungry, Miss Daleham?" he asked. "Hungry? I don't know. I haven't had time to think about food," she replied. "But I'm very thirsty."
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