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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Our contract against your job that I know every single detail of his terms with Gungadhura!" "Well, well, of course I believe you, Mrs. Blaine. We're not overheard are we?" Not forgetful of the Princess Yasmini hidden somewhere in the house behind her, but unsuspicious yet of that young woman's gift for garnering facts, Tess stood up to look through the parlor window.
It's the map out of the silver tube that Mukhum Dass burgled from my cellar. Gungadhura gave it to me with instructions to dig here. You'll note there's blood on it." Samson's eyes looked hardly interested as he took it. Then he looked, and they blazed. He put it in his inner pocket hurriedly. "Too bad, Blaine!" he laughed. "So you even had a map of the treasure, eh?
"It's sometimes hell to be commissioner, Mrs. Blaine." "If I were Gungadhura I'd find that money or bust! And when I'd found it " "You'd endow an orphan asylum, eh?" "I'd make such trouble for you English that you'd be glad to leave me in peace for a generation!" Samson laughed good-naturedly and twisted up the end of his mustache. "Pon my soul, you're a surprising woman!
"If Gungadhura should lay hands on all that money, there would be no peace in Rajputana. I should not bargain away what belongs to the priesthood, but discretion is permitted me; if you will agree with me tonight, I will accept a little less than half of it." Samson wanted time to think, and he was through with the priest finished with the interview, not even anxious to appear polite.
Why let a drunken English soldier be included in the long list of people to be reckoned with?" "Because Gungadhura will then show much favor to Tom Tripe, who is my friend, and it amuses me to see my friends prosper. Also I have a plan." "Plans plans plans! And whither does the tangle lead us?" "To the treasure, fool!" "But if you know so surely where the treasure is, woman, why not tell me and "
Utirupa ran in to drag the assailant off, but Trotters got there first chose his neck-hold like a wolf in battle and in another second Dick was free with Tess kneeling beside him while a life-and-death fight between animal and man raged between the bars of silver. "Gungadhura!" Yasmini shouted, waving her lantern for a sight of the struggling man's face.
It was you yourself who told me that Gungadhura has lots of children, who all stand between you and the throne. Do you mean ?" Again the bell-like laugh announced utter enjoyment of Tess's bewilderment. "No, I will kill nobody. I will not even send snakes in a basket to Gungadhura.
The high priest of the temple of Jinendra pretends to him that he can discover where the treasure is hidden, so Gungadhura makes daily offerings and the priest grows very fat." "Who taught you such good English?" Tess asked her; for there was hardly even a trace of foreign accent, nor the least hesitation for a word. "Father Bernard, a Jesuit.
And as if that were not bad enough there was a rumor lately that she had turned Abhisharika. The word is Sanskrit and poetic. To the ordinary folk, who like to listen to love-stories by moonlight on the roofs or under trees, that meant that she had chosen her own lover and would go to him, when the time should come, of her own free will. To Gungadhura, naturally, such a word bore other meanings.
Having a very extensive knowledge of dancing girls and their ways, Gungadhura did not believe much more than two per cent. of Patali's account of what had taken place, and he was right, except that he grossly overestimated her truthfulness.
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