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Updated: May 27, 2025
The last I saw of her she had seized the khansamah's young assistant and was shouting at him, "Chokra ye impident little black deevil, will you tell this moment, has there been an accident?" Backwards and forwards I went in the verandah, then down the steps to the road, straining my eyes to see and my ears to hear something what I did not know.
From the khansamah's quarters came an occasional clash of crockery and pattering of naked feet. Outside, in the compound, the sepoys were chattering volubly; their words were indistinguishable, but from their constantly increasing animation Amber inferred that they were keenly relishing the topic of discussion.
One day, Lootee, the chuprassey's cat, took Tchoop, the khansamah's monkey, unawares, as he was sunning himself on the house-top, and with scratching and spitting, sudden and furious, so startled him, that he threw himself over the parapet into the crowded Cossitollah, and would have been killed by the fall, had he not chanced to alight on the voluminous turban of a dandy hurkaru from the Mint.
"Stand aside, you hounds!" Amber turned pale. "That's Farrell's voice!" he cried, guessing at the truth. Labertouche made no answer, but edged toward the khansamah's quarters. The din subsided as Farrell gained the veranda.
Amber came to with a start and found himself sitting up on the edge of the charpoy, with a dreamy impression that two people had been standing over him and had just left the room, escaping by way of the khansamah's quarters. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and went out to remonstrate vigorously with the khansamah.
The second native slipped silver money into the khansamah's palm. "He will sleep till evening," he said. "If any come asking for him, say that he has gone abroad, leaving no word. More than this you do not know. The sepoys have an order to prevent all from entrance." The khansamah touched his forehead respectfully. "It is an order. Shabash!" he muttered.
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