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He continued in English: "If you do go through with this, Dewan, tell Hunsa if anything happens when they make the decoity and if I'm any reader of what is in a man's heart, I think something will happen the Ajeet tell Hunsa to bring the Gulab to me. I like his idea, and we can't afford to let the girl get away. Don't forget to arrange for the Gulab at my nautch."
"True, Sahib Bahadur, but a decoity was made upon a merchant on the road and he and his men were killed, but also two English sowars were slain." "By heavens!" The cool, trained, bloodless machine, that was a British Resident at a court of intrigue, was startled out of his composure; his eyes flashed to those of Barlow.
He assured Sewlal Sookdee, if he were promised, as he had been, full protection, would join in the enmeshing of Ajeet Singh. Sewlal pledged his word to the jamadar that no matter if an outcry were raised over a decoity they would be protected the matter would be hushed up.
"Just that you are not going on this mission, Ajeet;" then he laughed disagreeably. "If you are afraid to go Sookdee will be well without you," Ajeet retorted. Before more could be said in this way, and as they approached the camp, the lowing of a cow was heard. "Dost hear that, Guru?" Hunsa queried. "In a decoity is not the lowing of a cow in a village held to be an evil omen?"
He would not commit himself as to making a decoity, for when they had seized upon the Chief for the crime Ajeet could not then say that the Dewan had instigated it; there would be only Hunsa's word for this, and, of course, he would deny that the Minister was the father of the scheme.
But Ajeet's complicity in the decoity where the merchant and his men had been killed, gave the Dewan just what he had planned for the power of death over the Chief. As to his own complicity he had taken care to speak of the decoity to no one but Hunsa.
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