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Each was clad in a single garment shaped like a Japanese kimono and kilted up to expose thick-calved, muscular bare legs by a girdle from which hung a dah a short, straight sword. A little apart from them sat Noreen Daleham in a chair in which she was securely fastened and to which long carrying-poles were tied. She was dressed in riding costume and wore a sun-helmet.
Dermot laughed and, taking the tumbler, drank its contents gratefully, though their strength made him cough, for the bibulous Celt had mixed it to his own taste. "Major, Major, how can we thank you?" said Fred Daleham, coming to him with his sister clinging to his arm.
"What occurred, Miss Daleham?" "Did they put up a fight, sir?" The eager mob of men poured a torrent of questions on the girl and her rescuer. "Easy on, you fellows," said Dermot, laughing. "Give us time. We can't answer you all at once." "Yes, give them a chance, boys. Don't crowd," cried one planter. "Here! We can't see them. Let's have some light," shouted another. "Where are those servants?
Dermot had taken off his pad. "You dear thing!" cried the girl to him. "You are a hero. I'm very proud to think that I have been on your back." "It was really wonderful," said Daleham. "How I should have liked to see the fight! I say, all our servants have come out to look at him. By Jove! any amount of coolies, too. One would think that they'd never seen an elephant before."
Left with a small income inherited from her mother, Noreen Daleham, who was two years her brother's junior, had gladly given up the dulness of a home with an aunt in a small country town to accompany her brother and keep house for him. To most girls life on an Indian tea-garden would not seem alluring; for they would find themselves far from social gaieties and the society of their kind.
"I must stop this," exclaimed Daleham. "If old Parr sees them he'll be furious. They ought to be at their work." He ran down the steps of the verandah and ordered them away. His servants disappeared promptly, but the coolies went slowly and reluctantly. "What were they doing, Major Dermot?" asked Noreen. "They looked as if they were praying to your elephant. Hadn't they ever seen one before?"
I'll send him back to the herd." "What, will he go by himself?" exclaimed Daleham. "How will you get him again?" "I think he'll wait for me," replied Dermot. They had finished breakfast by now and rose from the table. The Major went to Badshah, touched him and made him turn round to face in the direction whence they had come. "Go now, and wait for me there," he said pointing to the forest.
But only the two women and Daleham followed Chunerbutty as he led the way to a table at the far end of the room. There were about twenty English guests altogether, eight or nine of whom were from the district in which Malpura was situated, the Rices among them.
The trees look so lovely, now that the orchids on them are in flower." "My dear girl, get that silly idea that elephants are not dangerous out of your head," said Daleham decidedly. "You ask any of the fellows." "Mr. Parry says they're not."
Ill-directed as was the assailants' fire, the showers of bullets were too thick not to have some effect. Another servant was killed, a third wounded. Daleham was struck on the shoulder by a ricochet but only scratched. A rifle bullet, piercing the barricade, passed through Noreen's hair, as she crouched beside her lover, whom she resolutely refused to leave. The ring of enemies constricted.
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