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Updated: May 7, 2025
It seemed like an hour before the lookout challenged from the crag that overhung the gate before the would-be English words rang out; and all Asia and its jackals seemed to wait in silence for the answer. "Howt-uh! Hukkums-thar!" "Ma hommed Gunga hai!" "Hurrah!" The cheer broke bonds from the depth of Cunningham's being, and Mahommed Gunga heard it on the plain below.
Gunga Dass, while carrying the gun-barrels, let slip the piece of paper which was to be our guide. I stooped down hastily to recover it, and, as I did so, I was aware that the diabolical Brahmin was aiming a violent blow at the back of my head with the gun-barrels. It was too late to turn round. I must have received the blow somewhere on the nape of my neck.
They will be all eyes and ears. It might be well, then, to set the pace a little slower, for a man looks better on a fresh horse than on a weary one!" "I'm thinking, Mahommed Gunga, of the two McCleans and of General Byng, who is expecting us. There is little time to lose." "I, too, consider them, sahib. It is we Rangars who must do the sabre work.
By walking out to the first shallow pool that lay at the foot of the projecting left horn of the horseshoe, I could wade across, turn the flank of the crater, and make my way inland. Without a moment's hesitation I marched briskly past the tussocks where Gunga Dass had snared the crows, and out in the direction of the smooth white sand beyond.
Outside, where the late afternoon sun was gradually letting things cool down, Mahommed Gunga leaned against the wall and roared with laughter, as he explained a few details to the admiring troopers. "A horse or two, says he! How many? Oh, just a horse or two, Maharajah-sahib merely a horse apiece! Fifteen hundred horses! A horse or two! Oh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ho! Allah!
Hastings to this Gunga Govind Sing. The screen, the veil, spread before this transaction, is torn open by the very people themselves who are the tools in it. They confess they can do nothing; they know they are instruments in the hands of Gunga Govind Sing; and Mr.
Hastings entertained of him; who, notwithstanding, now disowns this mock Committee, instituted by himself, but, in reality, entirely managed by Gunga Govind Sing. This Debi Sing was accepted as an unexceptionable man; and yet Mr. Hastings knows both his power of doing mischief and his artifice in concealing it. If, then, Mr. Goodlad is to be acquitted, does it not show the evil of Mr.
Rewa Gunga opened a jeweled cigarette case. "Will you have one?" he asked with the air of royalty entertaining a blood-equal. King accepted a cigarette for politeness' sake and took occasion to admire the man's slender wrist, that was doubtless hard and strong as woven steel, but was not much more than half the thickness of his own. The Rajputs as a race are proud of their wrists and hands.
And then his families weep with him, or, what is more likely, but not so literary, expectorate with emotion, and he tears himself away from them and comes on board the passing steamer in the uniform of Gunga Din "nothing much before and rather less than half of that behind," and goes down Coast on the strength of the little bit of paper from his white master which he has carefully treasured, and works like a nigger in the good sense of the term for another spell, to earn more goods for his home-folk.
I would like to have my hands in that Hindoo's treasure-chests! We none of us know yet, bahadur, what is this plan of thine " "You've been guessing awfully close to it, I think" laughed Cunningham. "Aha! The treasure-chests, then! But is there have you information, sahib? Who knows, then who has told where they are? Neither I nor my men know!" "Send for Mahommed Gunga."
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