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Updated: May 17, 2025
With fifty ground scouts scattered out ahead of them, they drummed out of the gorge and thundered by squadrons on the plain beyond straight, as the jackal runs, for Howrah City. Alwa, leaving his own squadron, to canter at Cunningham's side, gave him all the new intelligence that mattered. "Last evening I sent word on ahead to them of our coming, sahib!
He felt he would prefer to keep Jaimihr prisoner for the present. "Also, sahib" fresh facets of the situation kept appearing to him as he sparred for time "with Jaimihr in a cage I can drive a bargain with his brother. While I keep him in the cage, Howrah must respect my wishes for fear lest otherwise I loose Jaimihr to be a thorn in his side anew.
So the proposed allegiance of the Rangars suited him in more ways than one. His army and his brother's were so evenly matched in numbers and equipment that he had been able to leave Howrah without fear for the safety of his palace while his back was turned.
NOW it may seem unimaginable that two Europeans could be cooped in Howrah, not under physical restraint, and yet not able to communicate with any one who could render them assistance. It was the case, though, and not by any means an isolated case.
He was known to have engaged a new servant when he rode away from Howrah and to have left his trusted man behind. Miss McClean was known to have conversed with the retainer, immediately after which the man had been seized and carried off by Jaimihr's men. Jaimihr was known to have placed watchers round the mission house and once to have killed a man in Miss McClean's defense.
View of Harrison Road from Howrah Bridge Old view of Bank of Bengal Present view of Bank of Bengal Frontage of Writers' Buildings from East to West Distant view of Writers' Buildings, taken before the Dalhousie Institute was built Town Hall, Calcutta Site of Black Hole of Calcutta Old Court House Street, looking south Government Place, East, at the present day
Howrah, with untold treasure in his vaults, with an army of five thousand men, with the authority and backing that a hundred generations give, could long for more could fear the loss of what he did have but could not act. The priests held him fear-bound. His brother held him hate-bound.
Mahommed Gunga left his squadron, too, to canter beside Alwa. "I am all ears, sahib!" he asserted, reining his horse until his stride was equal to the others. "The key to the situation is that treasure," asserted Cunningham. "Howrah wants it. Jaimihr wants it. The priests want it. I know that much for certain, from the McCleans. All right.
He had some trouble in persuading the outposts who he really was, and there was an argument that could be quite distinctly heard from the summit of the rock, and made Alwa roar with laughter before, finally, the whole contingent formed and wheeled and moved away, ambling toward Howrah City at a pace that betokened no unwillingness.
He has left behind ten men for every one he brings with him sufficient to hold Howrah in check. Otherwise he would never have dared come here. He hopes to settle his little private quarrel with me first, before dealing with his brother! Who told him, I wonder, that I was pledged to Howrah?" "He reckons he has caught thee napping in this fort of thine!" laughed Mahommed Gunga.
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