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Updated: May 7, 2025
"I could but wait here, Miss-sahib, until the hour came when you changed your mind, or until Mahommed Gunga by letter or by word of mouth relieved me of my trust." "Oh! Then you will wait here until I ask?" "Surely, Miss-sahib." The head again peered through the window up above them, but disappeared below the ledge furtively, and none of the three were aware of it.
A minute or so later he noticed that at a sign from Rewa Gunga a woman left the great window place and spirited the knife away. "May I have a sheet of paper?" he asked, for he knew that another fight for his self-command was due. Rewa Gunga gave an order, and a maid brought him scented paper on a silver tray. He drew out his own fountain pen then and made ready.
"I'd know her in a million!" vowed Saunders. "I can take oath she hasn't gone anywhere by train! Unless she has walked, or taken a carriage, she's in Delhi!" The engine gave a preliminary shriek and the giant Ismail nudged King's elbow in impatient warning. There was no more sign of Rewa Gunga, who had evidently settled down in his compartment for the night. "Get my bag out again!"
We got on to a boat with a cabin on it, and sat on its roof on decrepit cane chairs, and the rowers below with makeshift oars gradually pulled us up and down the face of the Ghats what oars, and what a ramshackle tub of a boat too old and tumble-down for a fisherman's hen run at home. Holy Gunga!
Nobody seemed to know whether or not Mahommed Gunga reciprocated the British regard, and nobody had cared to ask him except his own intimates; and they, like he, were men of close counsel. The Prince had given no orders for the capture of Ali Partab; that had been carried out by his men in a fit of ill-advised officiousness.
Cunningham told off two troops to pursue fugitives and keep their eyes open for the Prince before he rode back to examine the breach in the wall that Jaimihr had been to so much trouble about making. He had halted to peer through the break in the age-old masonry when Mahommed Gunga spurred up close to him, touched his arm, and pointed. "Look, sahib! Look!"
Gunga Govind Sing, therefore, being pressed to the wall by this declaration of the Rajah's relation, when he could say nothing against it, when it was clear and manifest, and there were only impudent barefaced denials, and asseverations against facts which carried truth with themselves, did not in his answer pretend to say that a zemindary might be parted without the consent of the government, that a minor might be deprived of it, that the next relation had a power of disposing of it.
" Gunga Khatiawara Dhuleep Rhakapushi Utirupa Singh Maharajah of Sialpore!" Two hundred swords sprang clear again. The chandeliers rattled and the beams shook to the thunder of two hundred throats. "Rung Ho!" they roared. "Rung Ho!" "Rung Ho!" bringing down their right feet with a stamp all together that shook the building.
"She ought to be pretty well used to it by this time. Only a tar. It ought to be Ralli's answer about the new rivets. . . . Great Heavens!" Hitchcock jumped to his feet. "What is it?" said the senior, and took the form. "That's what Mother Gunga thinks, is it," he said, reading. "Keep cool, young 'un. We've got all our work cut out for us. Let's see.
In India men never tell the truth to chance-met strangers or to their enemies; the truth is a valuable thing, to be shared cautiously among friends. "If Mahommed Gunga is at Alwa's," reasoned Jaimihr, "then he is much too close at hand to take any chances with. I must keep this man close confined."
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