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"Unless we succeed in persuading the Lala to confess," said Balsamides. "This is a very unpleasant business," I remarked, with a pardonable hesitation. "I do not quite see where it will end. If we break into the house and find nothing, we shall be amenable to the law. I object to that." "Very well. What do you propose?" "I cannot say what would be best.
Selim went forward, and again I heard the keys rattle in his hands. Almost instantly the shadow of a head appeared at the window whence the light came. While the Lala was unfastening the lock I went close to the grating. I was just tall enough to meet a pair of dark eyes gazing at me intently through the lowest bars. "Alexander Patoff, is it you?" I asked in Russian.
Tom was half-asleep when he got into the train; he had the compartment to himself, and he thought it likely he would remain alone until he arrived at Lala Musa, about eight o'clock, where he would have to change to get on to the main line, so he quickly spread his bedding, and, drawing the green-baize shade over the lamp, he was soon asleep.
"You may yell yourself hoarse, if it pleases you." We continued to ascend the path, dragging the Lala between us. He had little chance of escape between two such men as we, and he seemed to know it, for after a few minutes he submitted quietly enough. At last we reached an open space among the rocks and trees, and Balsamides stopped.
You could easily force the Lala to recommend the story-teller to his Khanum. She could tell us about the internal arrangement of the place, at all events, which would make it easier for us to search the house, if we ever got a chance."
This servant's name was Tolu, and as he spoke English fairly well, I soon learned a great deal about Ratu Lala and his people. Ratu Lala was married to a very high-caste lady who was closely related to the King of Tonga, and several of whose relatives accompanied us on our expeditions.
There's Mr. Lala Roy. You never hear him coming." "Just for a trifle of a key, you are going to get possession of the best book-shop in all Chelsea. Well, keep your eyes skinned and the wax ready, will you? And now, James, I'll be off." "Oh, I say, Mr. Joseph, wait a moment!" James was beginning to realize what he had promised. "If anything dreadful should come of this?
As the river returns its waters to the sea, so the heart rejoiceth in returning benefits received." "Oh, Lala," said Iris. "But on whom have we conferred any benefits?" "The moon shines upon all alike," said Lala, "and knows not what she illumines." "Lala Roy," said Arnold, suddenly getting a gleam of intelligence, "it is you who have paid this money." "You, Lala?"
It was, indeed, as you shall see, in this way that her fortune was made; but yet not quite in the way he proposed to make it. Nobody ever makes a fortune quite in the way at first intended for him. As for her mathematics, it is no wonder that she was good in this science, because she was a pupil of Lala Roy.
Lala Roy, though a man of few words, drew so vivid a description of the punishment which awaited his penitent that James, foxy as he was by nature, felt constrained to resolve that henceforth, happen what might, then and for all future, he would range himself on the side of virtue, and as a beginning he promised to do everything that he could for the confounding of Joseph and the bringing of the guilty to justice.
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