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Updated: July 28, 2025
Did you make it up on the spot or did it take you long to think it out?" Lulworth smiled good humouredly. "Oh, it's not an original lie," he replied. "I had it from a half-bred Gurkha living in the forest village near my garden." "Who is commanding Ranga Duar?" asked Lane. "A fellow called Dermot; a Major," replied Goddard. "Dermot?
The heavy firing at Ranga Duar, echoed by the mountains, must have been heard in the district; and all the planters had probably taken the warning and gone away. He was racked with anxiety as to Noreen's fate and could only hope that at the first alarm her brother had hurried her off.
Noreen suddenly remembered the conversation at the club lunch. "Oh, are you the officer from the Fort up at Ranga Duar?" she asked. "One of them. I am commanding the detachment of Military Police there," he answered. "My name is Dermot." "Then I've heard of you. I understand now. They said that you could do wonderful things with wild elephants, that you went about the forest with a herd of them."
I wonder if by any chance it's a man who used to be in these parts before commanded Buxa Duar when there was a detachment of an Indian regiment there," said Payne. "I believe it's the same," replied Goddard. "He knows these jungles well and did a lot of shooting in them. You heard of it. He chased the brute for a fortnight." "That's the man," said Payne. "I'm glad he's back.
Then of a sudden he gave over the search, and gazed straight at the Dark Master with a swift word: "Have you slain him?" "Slain who, Cathbarr?" queried O'Donnell, with a thin smile. "Duar na Criosd!" bellowed Cathbarr with sudden fury. "Who but my friend Brian?" "Oh!" The Dark Master laughed and eased back in his chair. "No, he's still alive, Cathbarr?
For little as he suspected it the senior guessed the young man's trouble and watched him sympathisingly. One never-to-be-forgotten day as Wargrave was returning from afternoon parade Colonel Dermot called to him from his gate and showed him a telegram. It ran: "Tiger marked down. Come immediately dâk bungalow, Madpur Duar. Muriel."
As for the Dark Master, the red hue died slowly from his face, though his head remained drawn in, and still his eyes held those of Brian. When he spoke, it was as if he were musing aloud. "So, Brian of the hard eyes, you have some courage, eh? Duar na Criosd! Little did I ever think that a man would come to me and borrow my own men that he might make war upon me!
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?
He used to call her that sometimes in Ranga Duar. She was still his little friend. What a delightful place the world was after all! As he pencilled his initials on her programme a horde of dance-hungry men swooped down on Noreen and almost pushed him aside. He bowed and strolled away to watch the dancing.
The meal was not luxurious, for it consisted almost exclusively of tinned provisions, fresh meat being unprocurable in Ranga Duar except fowls of exceeding toughness and vegetables and bread being rare dainties. During dinner Wargrave learned how completely isolated his new station was.
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