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It showed no lights, and Amber very naturally concluded that it was unoccupied. He landed on the steps of the bund and waited for Dulla Dad to join him; but when, hearing a splash of the paddle, he looked round, it was to find that the native had already put a considerable distance between himself and the shore. Amber called after him angrily, and Dulla Dad rested upon his paddle.
"I was to say " "I heard that once. What's your name?" "Dulla Dad, hazoor." "And who are you from?" "Hazoor, I was not to say." "I think you'd better," suggested Amber, with grim significance. "I am the hazoor's slave. I dare not say." "Now look here " "Hazoor, it was charged upon me to say, 'I come from you know whom." "The devil it was.... Well, what do you want?"
"Only Labertouche would have to communicate with me by such stealth," he considered. "Besides, that reference to the photograph " He slipped hurriedly into his clothing and ostentatiously dropped the pistol into his right-hand coat-pocket. "I'm ready," he told the man. "Lead the way; and remember, if there's any treachery afoot, you'll be the first to suffer for it, Dulla Dad."
Of course I know as well as you do that at the first shot Dulla Dad would slip out to the lake and leave me here to die like a rat in a corner." "Thou knowest, lord, that no man in Khandawar would do thee any hurt. Thy person is sacred " "That's all bosh. You don't expect me to believe that you still stick to that absurd fiction of yours that I'm Rutton?"
There came a soft shuffle of feet on the stones behind him, and the stunted, white-clad figure of Dulla Dad stood at his side, making respectful obeisance. "Hazoor!" "You damned spying scoundrel!" Amber cried, enraged. "You've been waiting there by the window, listening!" "Hazoor," the native quavered in fright, "it was cold upon the water and you kept me waiting over-long.
I stand godmother to nearly all the newborn infants in our villages and hamlets. The mothers whom I nurse insist upon it. There are almost as many Cordulas as girls on the Montfort estates, and in many a hut there are two or three of them. Michel the fisherman has a Cordula, a Cordel, and a Dulla.
A minute or so later Amber saw the boat shoot out from the shore and swing in a long, graceful curve to the steps of the bund. "Make haste," he ordered, as he jumped in and took his place. "If I have kept you waiting, as you say, then I am late." "Nay, there is time to spare." Dulla Dad spun the boat round and away.
I don't understand.... Oh, very well." "And I was to say further, my lord, these words: 'You shall find but one way to Kathiapur." Amber shook his head, smiling. "If you don't mind getting yourself disliked on my account, Dulla Dad, you may take back to the author of that epigram this answer: 'You shall find but one way to Jehannum, and that right speedily. Good-morning, Dulla Dad."
Two-thirds of the way across the Virginian surrendered to his mistrust and drew his pistol. "Dulla Dad," he said gently; and the man ceased paddling with a shudder "Dulla Dad, you're taking me to the palace." "Yea, hazoor; that is true," the native answered, his voice quavering. "Who awaits me there? Answer quickly!"
"Hazoor, it is not wise to speak a name upon the water, where voices travel far." "Dulla Dad!" "Hazoor, I may not say!" "I think, Dulla Dad, you'd better. If I lose patience " "Upon my head be your safety, hazoor! See, you can fire, and thereafter naught can trouble me. But I, with a single sweep of this paddle, can overturn us.
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