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Updated: May 9, 2025
Captain Rayburn sent word that the Delhi would sail at ten o'clock, and afterwards went on board of the Blanchita. "You seem to be well supplied with coal," said he, as he looked about him. "I think we have a five-days' supply on board," replied Scott. "As I figure it up, we shall make the run to the Point inside of three days." "The Delhi's time is sixty-three hours," added her commander.
When Nadir asked a princess for his son, And Delhi's throne required his pedigree, He stared upon the messenger as one Who should have known his birth of bravery. "Go back," he cried, in undissembled scorn, "And bear this answer to your waiting lord: 'My child is noble! for, though lowly born, He is the son and grandson of the Sword!"
In fact it must have been partly on the strength of some of King's reports that the general was planning now. "That was a very small handful of Sikhs you named as likely to give trouble. Did you do that job thoroughly?" King grunted. "Well Delhi's chock-full of spies, all listening to stories made in Germany for them to take back to the 'Hills' with 'em.
"Some secret service racket," they laughed over their ale. Not a tremor of a single muscle betrayed Major Alan Hawke when he delivered over his official charge, Major General Abercromby, to Hugh Johnstone in the golden glow of Delhi's morning. "I've kept your interests in view," he whispered. "The old boy's just two hundred pounds richer. And, you may be sure, he wanted for nothing.
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