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"I look like her man, too!" "Thou!" Ismail's scorn was well feigned if it was not real. "Thou chicken running to the hand that will pluck thy breast-feathers! Listen! Abdurrahman he of Khabul and may Allah give his ugly bones no peace! Abdurrahman of Khabul sought the secret of the Caves. He sent his men to set an ambush. They caught twenty coming out of Khinjan on a raid.
Even the brigade of British-Indian cavalry that went to Khinjan on the strength of his report and leveled its defenses with the ground, had not been able to find the famous Caves. Yet the Caves themselves are a by-word. There's worse than that! When you went to Khinjan, what was your chief object?" "To find the source of the everlasting rumors about the so-called 'Heart of the Hills, sir."
She bade me come and bid you good-by, sahib. I would have stayed in there, but she commanded me. She said, 'Tell King sahib my love was true. Tell him I give him India and all Asia that were at my mercy! " While the Rangar spoke there came three more earth tremors in swift succession, and a thunder out of Khinjan as if the very "Hills" were coming to an end.
It needed an effort to quiet them when the mullah rose into view at last above the rise and paused for a minute to stare across at Khinjan before leading his four thousand down and onward. He was silent as an image, but his men roared like a river in flood and he made no effort to check them. He was like a man who has made up his mind to victory in any event.
"There is no pain in my shoulder at all! Ask of me another favor when the time comes! Hey, but I am sick of Khinjan!" He gave King a shove along the path in the general direction of the mullah. Then he seized the dead body by the legs, and hurled it like a sling shot, watching it with a grin as it fell in a wide parabola.
"Now ye know for all men know that the entrance into Khinjan Caves is free to any man who can tell a lie without flinching. It is the way out again that is not free. How many men do ye know that have entered and never returned?" They all nodded again. It was common knowledge that Khinjan was a very graveyard of the presumptuous. "She has set a trap for the mullah.
He overlooked the fact that Khinjan Caves for centuries had been a secret to be spoken of in whispers, and that prospect of its violation came to them as a shock. Half of them did not believe him. Such a thing was impossible, and if he were lying as to one point, why not as to all the others, too?
His brother whistled. "Tall order! What's your plan?" "Haven't one yet. Know more when I'm nearer Khinjan. You can help no end." "How? Name it!" "I shall go up in disguise. Nobody can put the stain on as well as you. But tell me something first. Any news of a holy war yet?" His brother nodded. "Plenty of talk about one to come," he said.
"Thou hast ears that can listen!" answered King. "In the letter that I left at Ali Masjid there is news of the lashkar that is gathering in the 'Hills, above Ali Masjid and beyond Khinjan. King sahib is ordered to be awake and wary." "And to lame no more horses jumping them over rocks!" "Nay, the karnal sahib said he is to ride after no more jackals with a spear!"
The Germans still believe me their accomplice and the sirkar was so pleased that I think if I had asked for an English peerage they would have answered me soberly. A million dynamite bombs was a big haul for the sirkar! My offer to go to Khinjan and keep the 'Hills' quiet was accepted that same day! "But what are a million dynamite bombs!
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