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"Did he say nothing ," asked Jaimihr. "Nothing, sahib." The priest watched him eagerly; he would have to bear back to the other priests an exact account of the Prince's every word, and movement, and expression. "Then I, too, say nothing!" answered Jaimihr. "But to the priests of Siva, who are waiting, sahib?" "Tell them I said nothing."
Gray eyes under gray brows met gray eyes that shone from under dark, wet lashes, and deep spoke unto deep. Scotsman recognized Scotswoman, and the bond between them tightened. "It seems to me" there was a new thrill in her voice "that here is our opportunity! Either Jaimihr wants to frighten us away or he is in earnest with his impudent attentions to me.
I and my men have a personal dispute with Jaimihr. Stay thou here!" Mahommed Gunga's five and Ali Partab came clattering out so fast as to lead to the suspicion that their horses had been already saddled. Mahommed Gunga mounted. "Lead on, cousin!" he exclaimed. "I will follow thy lead, but I come!" Then Alwa did what a native nearly always will do.
They were to join, and both fight against you, but Jaimihr tried to get the treasure out before either you or his brother came. He is trying now, sahib!" "Miss McClean! Ask her where Miss McClean is! Ask for Miss Maklin, sahib!" "Jaimihr has told her that thou and Alwa and Mahommed Gunga are all dead, and the British overwhelmed throughout all India!
"Remember!" said Alwa across his shoulder with more than royal insolence, "I swore to help thee against Jaimihr and to support thee on thy throne but in nothing did I swear to be thy tool remember!" Howrah City comes and goes Buys and sells and never knows Which is friend, and which are foes King, or Prince, or Siva.
What we say, what we promise what we boast must tally with what we undertake, and at the least try, to do. You must keep your word to Jaimihr, Miss McClean!" She stared back at Cunningham through wide, unfrightened eyes. Whatever this man said to her, she seemed unable to feel fear while she had his attention. Her father seemed utterly bewildered, and she held his hand to reassure him.
"Father!" she cried, and she all but fell out of the saddle into his arms as the tall, lean Scotsman came to the door to meet her and stood blinking in the sunlight. "Father, I've seen another man killed! I've had another scene with Jaimihr! I can't endure it! I I Oh, why did I ever come?" "I don't know, dear," he answered. "But you would come, wouldn't you?"
We who are with him begin to have courage in our bones again. Is the answer ready? Yet a little while? It is well, sahib, I will rest. Salaam!" "You see," said Cunningham, "the situation's desperate. We've got to act. Alwa here stands pledged to protect Howrah and you have promised to aid Jaimihr.
About a hundred of them reached the shelter of the infantry in a formed-up body; many of the rest charged through it in a mob and threw it into confusion. Too late Jaimihr decided on more reasonable tactics. Too late he gave orders to his infantry that no such confused body could obey. Before he could ride to rally them, the Rangars were in them, at them, through them, over them.
The East has a hundred florid epithets for one used in the West; and in a land where water is as scarce as gold and far more precious the mention of water to a thirsty man calls forth a flood of thought such as only music or perhaps religion can produce in luckier climes. Jaimihr waxed eloquent; more eloquent than even water might have made him had another had even another woman brought it.
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