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Updated: May 17, 2025
Howrah guarantees to keep the peace and protect the homes of my men. I guaranteed to hand him back the treasure when the show's over, less deductions for damage done!" "Well, I'm Who thought of that? You or Mahommed Gunga?" "Oh, I expect we cooked it up between us, sir." "H-rrrr-umph! And what's in the six-horse coach?" "A lady and her father." "The deuce they are!"
Within an hour Jaimihr's men were streaming from the four quarters of the compass, hurrying to be on the winning side, and forming into companies as they were ordered. Then Cunningham gave another order. "Alwa-sahib, will you take another flag of truce, please, and ride with not more than two men to Maharajah Howrah. Tell him that I want him here at once to settle about this treasure."
He swished with a rhino riding-whip at the stone column beside him, and the much-swathed individual of the plethoric paunch who stood and spoke with him kept a very leery eye on it; he seemed to expect the binding swish of it across his own shins, and the thought seemed tantalizing. "It is not to be done," said Jaimihr, speaking in a dialect peculiar to Howrah.
And why again? Because they would make us Christians! That is the truth! Else why are the Christian missionaries here in Howrah?" The listeners would nod while the little red fires glowed and purred above the pipes, and others not included in the circle strained forward through the dark to listen. "The gods get ready now! Are ye ready?"
Their carriage was delayed by heavy traffic; they reached the Howrah main station only to hear the Benares train whistling for departure. Abhoya, near the ticket office, stood quietly. "Lahiri Mahasaya, I beseech thee to stop the train!" she silently prayed. "I cannot suffer the pangs of delay in waiting another day to see thee."
"It was wrong of me to ever bring you here," he said sadly. "But I did not know I would never have believed." Then wrath took hold of him the awful, cold anger of the Puritan that hates evil as a concrete thing, to be ripped apart with steel. "God's wrath shall burst on Howrah!" he declared. "Sodom and Gomorrah were no worse! Remember what befell them!" "Remember Lot!" said Rosemary. "Come away!"
How much is my brother Howrah paying for Mahommed Gunga's services in this matter? It is well known that he and Alwa between them could call out all the Rangars in the district for whichever side they chose. Since they are not on my side, they must be for Howrah. How much does he pay? I might offer more." "I know not," said Ali Partab, perfectly ready to admit anything that was not true.
To openly befriend the Christian priests would be to set the whole Hindoo population against himself, for it had been mainly against suttee and its kindred horrors that the missionaries had bent all their energy. The great palace of Howrah was ahum.
AT Howrah, while Mahommed Gunga was employing each chance circumstance to test the pluck and decision and reliability of Cunningham at almost every resting-place along the Grand Trunk Road, the armed squire he had left behind with a little handful of gold mohurs and three horses was finding time heavy on his hands.
I must rest before I ride again." "Is all well, Mahommed Gunga?" "Ay, sahib! More than well!" "The men are ready?" "Horsed, armed, and waiting, they keep coming there were many when I left there will be three squadrons worthy of the name by the time we get there! Is all well at your end, sahib?" "Yes, all's well." "Did the padre people go to Howrah?" "They started and they have not returned."
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