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He felt that it would be advisable for him to talk the matter over with some of the older planters. "Who is your manager here?" he enquired. "A Welshman named Parry." "Are you far from Salchini?" "You mean Payne's garden? Yes; a good way. He's a friend of yours, isn't he?" "Yes; I should like to see him again. I must pay him a visit." "Oh, look here, Major," said Daleham eagerly. I've got an idea.
For the same post had brought him a letter from Noreen Daleham which told him that she was then, and had been for some time, in that hill-station. The climate of the Terai, unpleasantly but not unbearably hot in the summer months, is pestilential and deadly during the rains, when malaria and the more dreaded black-water fever take toll of the strongest.
When they had got Miss Daleham safely hidden away in the labyrinths of a native bazaar, perhaps in Calcutta, they'd have let everyone know who had carried her off." "Who was the other fellow with Narain Dass the chap who talked Bengali?" "Probably a Bhuttia who knew the language was given the Brahmin as an interpreter."
The others discussed the subject for some time, but no one could elucidate the mystery. At length Dermot said to Daleham: "No answer has come to that telegram you sent to Ranga Duar, I suppose?" "No, Major; though there's been plenty of time for a reply." "It's strange. Parker would have answered at once if he'd got the wire, I know," said Dermot. "But did he?
But I know he did. I heard him call them. When he ran off I thought that he was frightened and had abandoned us. But I did him a great injustice." Her companion was silent for a moment. Then he said: "Look here, Miss Daleham, we had better not tell that tale of Badshah quite in that way. It would seem impossible, and no European would credit it.
Several other estate managers corroborated his statement. "But surely, sir, you don't suspect Chunerbutty of being mixed up in this?" asked Daleham. "He's been a friend of mine for a long time. I lived with him in London, and I'm certain he is quite loyal and pro-British." "I know nothing of him, Daleham," replied the soldier.
"Excellent," said Daleham. "You'll meet Chunerbutty at dinner then. You'll find him quite a good fellow." "I'd like to meet him," answered the soldier truthfully. He felt that the Bengali engineer might interest him more than his host imagined. "I'll tell the boy to get your room ready," said Noreen. "Oh, what will you do with your elephant?" "Badshah will be all right.
Daleham gave directions to his butler and cook to prepare supper, and led the way into the house with his arm round his sister, who, woman-like, escaped to change her dress and make herself presentable, as she put it. She had already forgotten the fatigues of the day in the hearty welcome and the joy of her safe home-coming.
All the planters were convinced that the heart and the brain of the disaffection was to be found in Malpura. So Dermot determined to return there and expose the whole matter to Fred Daleham at last, charging him on his loyalty not to give the faintest inkling to Chunerbutty.
Propinquity is the most frequent cause of love for one who falls headlong into that passion fifty drift into it. In the isolation of that solitary spot on the face of the giant mountains, Kevin Dermot and Noreen Daleham drew nearer to each other in their few days together there than they ever would have done in as many months of London life.
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