Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
"And lust, my lord, for power," she interpolated. "But if what thou hast said be true " "'Who lies to the King, is already a dead man. Why should I trouble to deceive thee, Heaven-born? I tell thee, the man is won. The day shall declare it: this night will he ride with me to Kathiapur. Why didst thou not tarry to eavesdrop?
Who am I to know aught?... Nay, this have I heard" he paused cunningly: "'You shall find but one way to Kathiapur." Amber, realising that he had invited this insolence, was fair enough not to resent it, and held his peace until he could no longer be blind to the fact that the native was shaping a course almost exactly away from the Raj Mahal. "What treachery is this, dog?" he demanded.
Raikes and Colonel Farrell have already been advised to make preparations for a siege or for instant flight, if I give the word. They need you far more than I shall. It would be simple madness for you to venture to Kathiapur to-night. The case is clear enough for you to see the folly of doing anything of the sort." "It may be clear to you...."
Amber contented himself with a fresh examination of his pistol; it was all one to him, whatever the route by which he was to reach Kathiapur, so long as the change involved no delay.
"I'd almost given up hope of ever seeing myself again," said Labertouche drily. "But why didn't you ?" "Business, dear boy, business.... I was needed for several days in the neighbourhood of Kathiapur." "It seems as though I'd waited several years for news of Kathiapur. The papers " "There are a good many things that happen in India that fail to get into the newspapers, Amber.
They circled finally a great, round, grassless hillside, and pulled rein in the notch of a gigantic V formed by two long, prow-like spurs running out upon a plain whose sole, vague boundary was the vast arc of the horizon. Before them loomed dead Kathiapur, an island of stone girdled by the shallow silver river.
Three years ago I found time to make a pretty thorough exploration of Kathiapur, and, being blessed with an excellent memory, I shall be quite at home." Amber made a gesture of surrender. "Of course you're right," he said. "You're always right, confound you!" "Exactly," agreed Labertouche, smiling. "I'm only here to help you escape to the Residency.
His voice was gentle though he steeled his heart against her fascinations; for now he had a use for her. "Had Dulla Dad conveyed me to the palace, then I should have remembered thy promise to ride with me to Kathiapur. But, being brought to this place..." "Then thou didst wish to ride with me?" She nodded approval and satisfaction. "That is altogether as I would have it be, Lord of my Heart.
"I've heard of a Gateway of Swords in Kathiapur," Raikes admitted. "Never been there, myself." "Kathiapur?" "A dead city, Mr. Amber, not far away originally the capital of Khandawar. It's over there in the hills to the north, somewhere.
"It's all right, my boy. Miss Farrell is with me. Come along." There was an elan in his tone that bespoke a spirit of gratulation and relief and led Amber to suspect that they were very close upon the end of their flight, near to escape from the subterranean ways of Kathiapur the dead.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking