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And above all, a few tall tamarisk trees drooped long branches under hundreds of small boys. Famous nautch-girls had come from distant cities and trained with those of Hurda for an important part in the celebration. They were all staged on twelve Persian-carpeted platforms, ranged on the ground within the outer edge of the arena and close against the foot of the circular tier of seats.
Sometimes they stood and sometimes they moved one by one among the bazaars; but Hurda thought of them as one alien presence, and signified that the hugest of them, the monster himself, was also the most hateful and dangerous, which he was.
Bhanah will tell you when and where to watch it; but be careful and get under good roofing in time. And then, after the tracks are set right, if you must reach Hurda in order to come back with Carlin . . . Man, God help you if you do not give my sister the best of your gifts!" "Why, I belong to her "
In that interval he had learned about hyenas at first hand, through the plight of Beatrice Hichens and the children; also his servant Bhanah had come to him, and the Great Dane, Nels; still it had been a vague stretch of days, in retrospect. It was during the return-trip to Hurda that the thing happened which held him now as he lay broad awake.
They were walking toward Hurda among the shadows, Skag closer to the river. . . . The night was coming with a richness they had never seen tinted shadows of purple, orange and rose almost a living gleam to the colours; the evening air cool and sweet.
Many months before, five merchants came in from far Kabul and sat down in the market-place at Hurda, day by day unfolding more of their packs. They brought nuts from High Himalaya, foot-hill raisins and the long white Kabuli grapes themselves, packed in cotton, a dozen to fifteen in the box.
Not until then, did Carlin look upon Skag and speak at the same time. "Have I seen you before? . . . Who are you?" When Skag heard himself answer, he realised his voice had something in it he had never known before. . . . That afternoon Carlin went back to Hurda, but came again for an hour late in the afternoon. The next morning early, she came once more and Skag was there.
It was well that the Kabuli did not dare to come closer to Hurda than this, so that they had a chance to overtake his elephant afield, before the walls of the purdah closed. . . . Such was the burden of Chakkra's ramble, and there was no balm in it for Skag. The weight settled heavier and heavier upon him with the ending of the day.
I stayed on top of Neela Deo once when he ran home. It was not good sitting. I've never cared for the experience again. "As the jungle began to open toward Hurda, he was nervous. Of course I should have been more alive to his behaviour should have made out what was disturbing him. If we lose him, I shall feel very much responsible.
Dawn broke upon them while they were still in the very rugged hills; and as the mountain outlines cleared of mist, the Gul Moti saw that Mitha Baba was leading her catch straight away back to Hurda. True to her training there being no trap-stockades near the toiler was taking them home! The situation was absurd; but it roused the Gul Moti like one out of a dream to actual joy.
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