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Hunsa pushed his way through this motley crowd and continued on to the gate of the palace. To the guard who halted him he said: "If the other who went up to see the Chief has gone, I would go now, meer sahib. As I have said, it is a message from the Gulab Begum." "I looked for you when I returned from above," the guard answered, "but you had gone.
He shivered as though the white mist that veiled the river crept into his marrow. The Gulab seemed at home amongst these gathered ones. Two or three times she had bade the driver stop his creeping pace, and looking out from beneath the curtain had questioned a man or woman.
Bootea had followed with her eyes his struggle; then she said: "The Sahib has heard of the women of the Rajputs who, with smiles on their lips faced death, who, when the time of the last danger came were not afraid?" "Yes, Gulab. But for you it is not that way. You have said that I am your protector I will be." There was a smile on the girl's lips as she raised her eyes to Barlow's.
"Why do you ask, Gulab?" "Not in the way of treachery, but because the Sahib is now like a god; and because I may again be of service, for those who will slay Amir Khan will also slay the Sahib." "Gulab, " Barlow's voice was drowned by yells of terror in the outer room. "Thieves! Thieves have broken in to rob, and they have stolen my lamp! Chowkidar, chowkidar! wake, son of a pig!"
This is the reason you spoke of, Gulab good deeds; is it the only other reason?" The girl turned her face away, and Barlow saw her shoulders quiver. He rose from the chair, and lifting the girl to her feet held her in his arms, saying: "Look me in the eyes, Gulab, and tell me if you are going through this devilish thing because of me."
"Just nothing that a man should bother over that he should ask a woman about." But almost involuntarily he brushed his face across her black hair and said, "Just that, Gulab that it's like burying one's nose in a rose." "The attar, Sahib? I love it because it's gentle." "Ah, that's why you wore the rose that I came by at the nautch?" "Yes, Sahib.
"Yes," the Dewan answered drily. "If a party of Bagrees were to go to the Pindari camp disguised as players and wrestlers, and the Gulab as a nautchni, Amir Khan might be enticed to her tent for she causes men to become drunk when she dances. Once she danced for Raja Karowlee, and, though he is old and fat and has more of wives than other possessions he became covetous of the girl.
It was like a voice crying out in the night that shattered a blissful dream. "Why do you ask that, Gulab?" "Because it was said. And the Missie Baba's heart will be full of the Sahib, for he is like a god." "Is the Gulab jealous of the Missie Baba?" Barlow asked mundanely, almost out of confusion.
And peacocks, awakened when they should have slept, called with their harsh voices from lofty perches. A party of villagers hurried by, shifting their cheap turbans to hide faces as they scurried along. The Gulab was trembling; perhaps the decoits, led by Hunsa, had come by a shorter way; for they were like beasts of the jungle in this art of silent, swift travel.
According to the account of our interpreter, which had to pass from Thibetian into Hindostanee before it could clothe itself in English, the cause of this dilapidation was the state of wealth and ambition at which the Lamas had arrived, and the consequent interposition of Gulab Singh to take down their pride and ease them of a little of their wealth, both of which he accomplished in the style to which he was so partial, by slaughtering some hundreds of them and reducing their airy habitations to ruins.
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