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Updated: May 7, 2025
He has elevated his cunning brother Doola to be head of the Council of Emirs with the rank of vizier; and has given him the richest province of my father's kingdom to govern." When relating these things the princess would give way to her grief. But Ablano comforted her, saying, "Peace, my child. Be not disheartened.
'Nay, said the King. 'Why should I hurt the little children? They had poured out of the hut door and were making plump obeisance to everybody. Nanigay Doola waited with his gun across his arm. 'Or thou canst, discarding the impiety of the cow-maiming, raise him to honour in thy Army. He comes of a race that will not pay revenue.
I pulled out a rupee, held the coin between finger and thumb, and looked only looked at the gun against the wall. A grin of brilliant and perfect comprehension overspread the face of the child. Never for an instant stopping the song he held out his hand for the money, and then slid the gun to my hand. I might have shot Namgay Doola as he chanted. But I was satisfied.
Then the villagers howled and shouted and scrambled across the logs, pulling and pushing the obstinate timber, and the red head of Namgay Doola was chief among them all. The logs swayed and chafed and groaned as fresh consignments from upstream battered the now weakening dam. All gave way at last in a smother of foam, racing logs, bobbing black heads and confusion indescribable.
Only in the legs. 'And why at all, since it is the custom to pay revenue to the King? Why at all? 'By the God of my father I cannot tell, said Namgay Doola. 'And who was thy father? 'The same that had this gun. He showed me his weapon a Tower musket bearing date 1832 and the stamp of the Honourable East India Company. 'And thy father's name? said I. 'Timlay Doola, said he.
So saying he dismissed the assembled people, and beckoning Doola, sought the seclusion of his own apartment. In obedience to the command of Garrofat, Bright-Wits presented himself in the great council hall of the palace at noon of the next day. His entrance was the signal for a demonstration of joy from the guards who already looked on him as their future leader.
'O King, said I. 'If it be the King's will let this matter stand over till the morning. Only the Gods can do right swiftly, and it may be that yonder villager has lied. 'Nay, for I know the nature of Namgay Doola; but since a guest asks let the matter remain. Wilt thou speak harshly to this red-headed outlander. He may listen to thee.
'Timlay Doola, said he. 'At the first, I being then a little child, it is in my mind that he wore a red coat. 'Of that I have no doubt. But repeat the name of thy father thrice or four times. He obeyed, and I understood whence the puzzling accent in his speech came. 'Thimla Dhula, said he excitedly. 'To this hour I worship his God. 'May I see that God? 'In a little while at twilight time.
There was no hope of capturing the man without loss of life, for from a hole in the wall projected the muzzle of an extremely well-cared-for gun the only gun in the State that could shoot. Namgay Doola had narrowly missed a villager just before we came up. The Standing Army stood. It could do no more, for when it advanced pieces of sharp shale flew from the windows.
The river tossed everything before it. I saw the red head go down with the last remnants of the jam and disappear between the great grinding tree- trunks. It rose close to the bank and blowing like a grampus. Namgay Doola wrung the water out of his eyes and made obeisance to the King. I had time to observe him closely.
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