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"Oh, about three weeks before you came. I was on a long while. Before Christmas." "Since when has it been off?" Lance hesitated. "Well things became shaky after Kapurthala. That day the wedding, you remember? I spoke rather straight ... about you. I saw you were getting keen. And I didn't want you to come a cropper " "Why the devil didn't you tell me the truth?" Lance set his lips.
She paused, looking back over it all; felt Roy's hold slacken and unobtrusively withdrew her hand. "Soon after Kapurthala, he was angry again. And that time, I'm afraid I reminded him that our engagement was only 'on' conditionally; that if he started worrying at me, it would soon be unconditionally off " "So it should have been!"
Lance Desmond, with his pointed phrase, had virtually dug him out of his chosen retreat; had written temptingly of the 'last of the polo, of prime pig-sticking at Kapurthala, of the big Gymkhana that was to wind up the season: a rare chance for Roy to exhibit his horsemanship.
But neither the work he loved, nor his budding intimacy with Miss Arden, deterred him from accepting a week-end invitation from the Maharajah of Kapurthala the friendly, hospitable ruler of a neighbouring Sikh State. The Colonel was going, and Lance, and half a dozen other good sportsmen.
The great majority of the ruling princes and chiefs are Hindus, but besides the Nizam, the most powerful of all, there are not a few Mahomedan rulers who have survived the downfall of Moslem supremacy, just as the Sikh chiefs of Patiala, Nabha, and Kapurthala, in the Punjab, still recall the great days of Ranjit Singh and the Sikh confederacy.
Meantime, there were letters: one from his father, one from Jeffers; and beneath them a too familiar envelope. At sight of it, he felt a faint tug inside him; as it were a whispered reminder that, away at Kapurthala, he had been about as free as a bird with a string round its leg. He resented the aptness of that degrading simile. It was a new sensation; and he did not relish it.
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