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Updated: May 2, 2025
"No, my dear, he won't, for the very good reason that I have already passed her safely across the Ghara. But he will have a rod in pickle for poor Gerrard, who seems to me to have quite enough to bear already what with his wounds and the loss of all his belongings, to say nothing of the death of his friend." "You don't think, James, that he feels himself to blame for poor Mr Charteris's death?"
"No, you are to ride back to Habshiabad hell-for-leather, and create a diversion by crossing the Ghara with every man you can lay your hands on. Even if I get to the city in time, I shall have to fight my way back through hostile country, so if you can draw off the army by an imposing demonstration in the other direction, it may save all our lives."
The Rani joined them with every man she could bring as soon as they were ready to cross the Ghara, but left the command of her contingent to Rukn-ud-din, maintaining rigid seclusion on her elephant with one or two faithful attendants. Thus far, then, Charteris's bold scheme was justified.
Composed originally as a song of seed-time, it has now lost its primary significance and is sung by men at their work or by mothers hushing their children in the dark alleys of the city. The verse runs thus: "Nakhwa Koli jat bholi, Ghara madhye dravya mahamar, Topiwalyane hukum kela, Batliwalyachya barabar." which may be rudely interpreted as follows:
No cement was used in the building of its outer walls, they consist entirely of square stones, which are so well wrought and so closely joined that the blade of the thinnest knife cannot be pushed between two of them; the interior of the temple is richly decorated. On our way back we did not stop in Thalner, but went straight on to Ghara.
"Would that these were as the days of old, before the English crossed the Ghara! Then should Jirad Sahib have been my Englishman, and I would have given him a wife out of my own house, and he should have dwelt always in my city, and trained my soldiers.
You will cross the Ghara wherever you find most convenient the Habshi with his local knowledge will advise you best there remembering that if you can get far enough to the east to give the impression of threatening the city from another side, so much the better, but remembering also that unless you come up quickly, I may have the whole Agpur army launched against me."
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