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He said that there was great excitement in the bazar: no official messenger had arrived, but everybody was saying that the Nawab had captured the English factory at Cossimbazar, and was going to drive all the Firangi out of Bengal. Desmond decided to take a bold course. Everything happened as he hoped.
Fuzl Khan shouted to the serang to take the helm and steer the vessel out to sea; then set off in headlong pursuit of Desmond, who had now turned and stood awaiting the attack. The Gujarati did not even trouble to draw his knife. He plunged at him like a bull, shouting that he would deal with the pig of a Firangi as he had dealt with the sentinel at Gheria.
"I could not give blows; I should die. It was told us today that the English are about to attack this fort. They will set us free; we need run no risks." "Wah!" exclaimed one of the Mysoreans. "If the Firangi get into the fort, we shall all be murdered." "That is truth," said a Maratha. "The Rho would have our throats cut at once." The Babu groaned.
Failing to hit upon a plausible argument, he began to bluster. "You, Firangi, heed what I say. It is not for us to run risks: the hind does not walk open eyed into the tiger's mouth. The grab must be put about immediately." "Who is in command?" asked Desmond quietly; "you or I?" "We share it. I can navigate as well as you." "You forget our arrangement in Gheria. You agreed that I should command."
He may give his word to escape me; then betray me to his countrymen. I have no faith in the Firangi." "Believe me, if he gives his word he will keep it. That is the way with us." "It is not your way." "I am no longer of them," said Diggle with consummate aplomb. "Dismiss him now; I shall do my best with him." "Then you must hasten.
"The ships of the Firangi may appear at any moment, and I must be on the lookout. "Meantime," he added to Hubbo, "you keep watch." For a man of his build he was fairly active. Dropping on to the loose earth, he scrambled over it towards the oil lamp by whose light the mistri and his assistant were working.
Introducing himself to the gumashta, he asked him to give out that the party was in command of a Firangi in the service of the Nawab, and was conveying part of the Nawab's private equipage in advance to Baraset, a few miles north of Calcutta, there to await the arrival of the main army. The trick proved effective.
The Hindu, even more than the average human being elsewhere, is inclined to attach importance to might and bulk even to mere fat. If he sounded the Marathas, and, their fear of the Gujarati outweighing their inevitable distrust of him as a Firangi, they betrayed him to curry a little favor, there was no doubt that the fate both of himself and the Babu would instantly be decided.
Seemingly he was taking up the thread where it had been dropped earlier in the night; what was it about? Desmond asked himself the question without much interest, and was again allowing his thoughts to rove when he caught the word "sahib," and then the word "Firangi" somewhat loudly spoken. Immediately afterwards there was a low hiss from the Gujarati, as of one warning another to speak lower.
And it appeared afterwards that during the night the Biluchis had recounted many fabulous incidents, all tending to show that the sahib was a very important as well as a very ingenious Firangi, so that this reputation, coupled with an offer of good pay, overcame any scruples the men might retain. Among those who volunteered and whose services were accepted was the serang of Angria's gallivat.
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