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These lands were not without an ownership, but were lands in the hands of the Rajah, and were to be severed from the zemindary, and given to Gunga Govind Sing. The manner of obtaining them is something so shocking, and contains such a number of enormities completed in one act, that one can scarce imagine how such a compound could exist.
A great slice of Khinjan suddenly caved in with a roar, and smoke and dust burst upward through the tumbling crust. There was a pause after that, as if the waiting elements were gathering strength. For ten minutes they watched and scarcely breathed. Rewa Gunga gained the summit and, dismounting, stood by King with the reins over his arm. The mare was too blown to do anything but stand and tremble.
He had counted most on aid from Cunningham and Mahommed Gunga, but that source seemed to have failed him; and he gave up hope of their arrival when a body of several thousand rebels took up position on his flank and cut off approach from the direction whence Cunningham should come. The sun blazed down like molten hell on sick and wounded.
And then, Corrigan Elwright Doby Gould all on the platform in a bunch, and all down on the Army List as Turkish interpreters! Not a doubt left!" "What have you written?" asked a quiet voice at his ear; and he turned to look straight in the eyes of Rewa Gunga, who had leaned forward to read over his shoulder. Just for one second he hovered on the brink of quick defeat.
And accordingly, this minor Rajah got some person kind enough to tell him that he was a minor, that he could not part with his estate; and this, with the other shocking and illegal parts of the process, was stated by him to the Council, who had Mr. Hastings's recommendation of Gunga Govind Sing before them.
Urdu is perhaps the politest of written tongues and lends itself most readily to indirectness; but since he did not expect to read a catalogue of exact facts, he was not disappointed. Translated, the letter ran: "To Athelstan King sahib, by the hand of Rewa Gunga. Greeting.
"There is no more justice from the Heavenly Ones. Ye have made shame and sport of Gunga, who asked no more than a few score lives." "Of my people who lie under the leaf-roofs of the village yonder of the young girls, and the young men who sing to them in the dark of the child that will be born next morn of that which was begotten tonight," said Krishna. "And when all is done, what profit?
Rewa Gunga took pen and paper and set a mark against some thirty of the names, for King had a manner that disarmed refusal. "Where are the others?" he asked him, after a glance at it. "In jail, or else over the border." "Already?" The Rangar nodded. "Trust Yasmini! She saw to that jolly well before she left Delhi! She would have stayed had there been anything more to do!"
The one thing that the grim old Rajput wished for his protege was jealousy! He wanted him so well hated by the "nabobs" who had grown crusty and incompetent in high command that life for him in any northern garrison would be impossible. Throughout the two months' journey to the north Mahommed Gunga never left a stone unturned to make Cunningham believe himself much more than ordinary clay.
Again Mahommed Gunga bowed, without a smile or a tremor on his face; again a growled order was echoed and re-echoed through the dark. The drumming stopped. "Is there oil in the bahadur's lamp?" asked Mahommed Gunga. "Probably not," said Cunningham. "I will command that " "You needn't trouble, thank you, risaldar-sahib. I sleep better in the dark.
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