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Updated: May 1, 2025
By two o'clock we had reached the village of Gurka, where we were met by a deputation, from whom we demanded certain supplies to be brought to our camp on pain of severe punishment if not complied with, and by 4 P.M. we got to the hamlet of Lun, and as there was a good camping ground, good water and firewood, Colonel Kelly decided to halt there.
'And are you going to the village? 'I'll go for the holidays. 'Gurka says your Dunayka is carrying on with Fomushkin, said Nazarka suddenly. 'Well, let her go to the devil, said Lukashka, showing his regular white teeth, though he did not laugh. 'As if I couldn't find another! 'Gurka says he went to her house. Her husband was out and there was Fomushkin sitting and eating pie.
To while away the time he was exchanging shots with the ABREKS, who were behind another sand-heap. A bullet came whistling from their side. The cornet was pale and grew confused. Lukashka dismounted from his horse, threw the reins to one of the other Cossacks, and went up to Gurka. Olenin also dismounted and, bending down, followed Lukashka.
They had hardly reached Gurka when two bullets whistled above them. Lukashka looked around laughing at Olenin and stooped a little. 'Look out or they will kill you, Dmitri Andreich, he said. 'You'd better go away you have no business here. But Olenin wanted absolutely to see the ABREKS. From behind the mound he saw caps and muskets some two hundred paces off.
The Lunites paid up smartly enough, as we were too close neighbours to allow of any hesitation; but the Gurka contribution had only partly come in the next morning, so that a party of the Levies was sent back, and the Gurka villagers had the trouble of bringing the loads along to Barnas, instead of only two miles into Lun, while the headman was made to carry a box of ammunition all the way to Chitral.
I know every one of their footpaths ... Daddy Mosev, said he, turning resolutely and almost commandingly to the corporal, 'it's time to relieve guard! and holding aloft his gun he began to descend from the watch-tower without waiting for the order. 'Come down! said the corporal, after Lukashka had started, and glanced round. 'Is it your turn, Gurka?
Gurka stopped awhile and then went away, and passing by the window he heard her say, "He's gone, the fiend.... Why don't you eat your pie, my own? You needn't go home for the night," she says. And Gurka under the window says to himself, "That's fine!" 'You're making it up. 'No, quite true, by Heaven! 'Well, if she's found another let her go to the devil, said Lukashka, after a pause.
The corporal rode up to Lukashka. 'Are they far? was all Lukashka said. Just then they heard a sharp shot some thirty paces off. The corporal smiled slightly. 'Our Gurka is having shots at them, he said, nodding in the direction of the shot. Having gone a few paces farther they saw Gurka sitting behind a sand-hillock and loading his gun.
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