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A big Indian railway station the Howrah terminus in Calcutta, the Victoria Terminus in Bombay, the Central Station in Delhi is in itself at all times a microcosm of India. It is never empty, never silent by day or by night. It is always alive, always crowded, always full of Indian sounds and smells.
The district or county of Hoogli and Howrah, opposite Calcutta and Barrackpore, of which Serampore is the central port, swarms with a population, chiefly Hindoo but partly Mussulman, unmatched for density in any other part of the world.
Mother of a murrain, have I not trouble sufficient for one man? Who bears bad news to a prince, or to any but his enemy? I with these two eyes I saw what happened to the men who bore bad news to Howrah once. I with this broom of mine I helped clean up the mess. Deliver thine own message!" "Nay. Afterward I will say this to the Jaimihr-sahib in person.
"What do you propose to do about it?" inquired Byng. "It's out of our province. A copy of this letter has been sent to the proper quarter, and no doubt the story will be investigated. There have been all kinds of stories about suttee being practised in Howrah, and it very likely won't be difficult to find a plausible excuse for deposing the Maharajah and putting Jaimihr in his place.
Then, sahiba, if thou art here perhaps there might yet be a way-perhaps, yes? a way, still, to escape me?" She was trembling. She could not help beginning to believe him. Whatever might be true of what he said was certainly not comforting. "But, while my army comes in search of me, my brother Howrah will be making merry with my palace and belongings.
Just because he gave his word to another Rangar, he risked his life about a dozen times to get my father and me and Ali Partab out of Howrah. But, I don't think he quite liked doing it and this is in confidence if I were asked and speaking just from intuition I should say he is in sympathy with the rebellion!" "How long have you been here?" asked Cunningham. "Several days ten, I think.
"Send a hundred men, each with a flag of truce on his lance, to gallop through the city and call on Jaimihr's men to rally to me, if they wish protection against Howrah!" "Good, sahib! Good!" swore Alwa. "Howrah is the next danger! Make ready to fight Howrah!" "Attend to my orders, please!" smiled Cunningham, and Alwa did as he was told.
But we thought there would be little sense in ordering wagons to follow us to Howrah City, knowing that thy plan would surely entail action. If we are to ride to the aid of Byng-bahadur it seemed better to pick up the wagons on the journey back again. That is all, sahib. There will be no time, of course, to waste on talk or drill.
Therefore, he proposed to forestall Cunningham if possible, and, if that were inconvenient or rash, he meant to take other means of making Rosemary McClean his, beyond dispute, in any case. Next to Rosemary McClean he coveted most the throne of Howrah.
Of course all passenger traffic would have centred there, and every one, leaving for home or up-country, would have driven to the new station, and so have avoided the long unpleasant drive over the bridge to Howrah on the one side and to Sealdah on the other. But like many another proposed scheme that I have heard of in my time in Calcutta it unfortunately all ended in smoke.
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