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Updated: July 28, 2025
From his description of Ranga Duar and its inhabitants it could be no place for her under the circumstances. No; there was nothing to do but to wait. Besides, it was so very jolly now at Poona. Frank must not be an impatient boy; and she sent him all her love. His cheque she had torn up. The subaltern whistled, read the letter again very carefully, folded and put it away. What had come to Violet?
Couldn't we get some machine guns?" "I'm afraid we couldn't hold the Fort of Ranga Duar against a whole invading army, Parker. You know it isn't really defensible against a serious attack." "Oh, I say! Do you mean, sir, that we'd give it up to a lot of Chinks and bare-legged Bhuttias without firing a shot?" The Major smiled at his junior's indignation.
As one approaches a dûár, or encampment, an early warning is given by the hungry dogs, and soon the half-clad children rush out to see who comes, followed leisurely by their elders. Hospitality has ever been an Arab trait, and these poor creatures, in their humble way, sustain the best traditions of their race.
Thanks to this precaution the garrison of the outpost was not taken by surprise when one morning the hills around Ranga Duar were seen to be covered with masses of armed men, and long lines of troops wound down the mountain paths.
One as he expired had a shadowy vision of some awful bulk towering black against the coming dawn. The sun was low in the heavens when Dermot awoke in a bracken-carpeted glade of the forest thirty miles away from Ranga Duar. Over him Badshah stood watchfully. The man yawned, rubbed his eyes and sat up. He looked at his watch. "Good Heavens! I've slept for hours!" he cried.
That hurts. I respect him." "But where is this place they're sending you to?" she asked. "Ranga Duar? I don't know. Eastern Bengal, I believe." "Bengal. What? Anywhere near Calcutta?" "No; it must be somewhere up on the frontier. Otherwise they wouldn't send Military Police to garrison it." "But what is it like? Is it a big station?" she persisted. "I can't tell you. But it's sure not to be.
On their way up the steep road from his bungalow the Political Officer spoke of the great forest below them and the sport to be found in it. Then he said: "It's lucky you like shooting, Wargrave, for Ranga Duar is very isolated and life in it dull to a person who has no resources. Still, it has its advantages, and chief among them is the climate.
But in those golden days in the mountains, Noreen Daleham was happy, happier far than she had ever been; albeit she did not realise that love was the magician that made her so. She only felt that the world was a very delightful place and that the lonely outpost the most attractive spot in it. Even when the day came to quit Ranga Duar she was not depressed.
Not a whisper was heard. Then he smiled as he said to himself: "That should keep them quiet." He turned Badshah towards the bungalow. Forty miles away, when darkness fell on the mountains that night, the army of the invaders slept soundly in their bivouacs around the doomed post of Ranga Duar.
Miss Benson, who had returned to Ranga Duar and remained there longer than she had originally intended, owing to fever contracted in the jungle, joined him in these studies and astonished her fellow-pupil by her aptitude and quickness of apprehension. But her presence proved disastrous to him.
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