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Updated: June 29, 2025
Then they carried the body out of the compound, across the main highway, beyond the parallel bridle-road, and let it slide softly down into the little khud beyond, deeper and deeper each year from erosion. A little afterward, that same afternoon, Margaret Annesley and Carlin Deal were walking along the bridle-path.
But I won't leave Lenox till he's fit to go into Dalhousie." Colonel Mayhew nodded approval; and the dismal procession set out again; O'Malley enlivening its progress with highly-coloured reminiscences of khud accidents he had known, and with incidental attempts at jocularity that fizzled out like damp fireworks. It was all meant kindly enough.
But the man who wills to conquer evil has God and Nature fighting on his side: and in the teeth of several flagrant lapses, Lenox made steady progress. In Srinagar he bought a bottle of chlorodyne; and two days later flung it down the khud.
'The letters and the murasla I must carry inside my coat and under my belt, and the hand-written books I must put into the food-bag. It will be very heavy. No. I do not think there is anything more. If there is, the coolies have thrown it down the khud, so thatt is all right. Now you go too. He repacked the kilta with all he meant to lose, and hove it up on to the windowsill.
He listened seriously and spoke to Carlin of the value of good Indian servants in the houses of the English; of the dangers of the tiger in the grass and the serpent upon the rock and the Kabuli in the khud to whom he would attend at once.
This was the moment when Neela Deo charged him and he ran, dodging far beyond the range of the fighting arena down the khud valley. Everyone followed; the wild elephants running by themselves screaming in harsh tones; the caravan trumpeting in clear, full tones; the mahouts, calling the name of the King beside themselves with delight.
In his fright, the little fool slipped half over the khud, and if a knight-errant had not fallen from heaven, in the nick of time, we should both be lying somewhere in the valley by now, 'spoiling a patch of Indian corn'!" Maurice frowned. "Don't be gruesome, Quita." "Sorry. I didn't mean to be. I was only quoting that uncannily clever Kipling boy at Lahore.
The two bodies of elephants were plunging down the opposite sides of a deep khud and would meet in the broad bottom. Mitha Baba the big males on each side of her was setting the pace for this side, as if everything depended on time. But when they were quite close, she rushed ahead straight through the caravan and beyond.
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