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"Colonel Dewes." Shere Ali nodded his head as though he had expected the name. Then he said as he turned away: "What is Luffe to me? What should I know of Luffe?" "This," said Phillips, and he spoke in so arresting a voice that Shere Ali turned again to listen to him.
But no blame will fall upon the Colonel Sahib. For the British Government, with whom Wafadar Nazim has always desired to live in amity, desires peace too, as it has always said. It is the British Government which has broken its treaties." "Not so," replied Luffe.
"Will you follow me?" said Luffe, and he led the way through the rabbit-warren of narrow alleys into the centre of the fort. Luffe had taken a large bare low-roofed room supported upon pillars for his council-chamber. Thither he conducted his visitor. Camp chairs were placed for himself and Major Dewes and Captain Lynes. Cushions were placed upon the ground for his visitor.
He was immersed in the second letter which the Diwan had handed to him. "Who is it?" asked Dewes. "Linforth's wife." "His wife!" exclaimed Dewes, and, looking at the photograph again, he said in a low voice which was gentle with compassion, "Poor woman!" "Yes, yes. Poor woman!" said Luffe, and he went on reading his letter.
He fell in this courtyard, struck down not by a bullet, but by overwork and the strain of the siege. I know. I have the story from an old soldier whom I met in Cashmere this summer and who served here under Luffe. Luffe fell in this court, and when he died was buried here." Shere Ali, in spite of himself was beginning to listen to Captain Phillips' words. "Who was the soldier?" he asked.
Which hee performed vpon divers of the formost, who, as the Mariners terme it, sprang their luffe, and fell vnder the lee of the Reuenge. But the other course had beene the better, and might right well haue bene answered in so great an impossibility of preuailing. Notwithstanding out of the greatnesse of his minde, he could not be perswaded. Who after layd the Reuenge aboord.
He was aware of no similiarity between his own case and that of Shere Ali. He had long since forgotten the exhortations of Luffe. "Oh, come now," he repeated. "Isn't that a little ungrateful what?" He could hardly have chosen a word less likely to soothe the exasperated nerves of his companion. Shere Ali laughed harshly. "I ought to be grateful?" said he.
Moreover, there had been an encounter between the two in which Luffe had prevailed. The Brigadier paid a ceremonious visit to the Khan on the following morning, and once more the Khan expounded his views as to the education of his son. But he expounded them now to sympathetic ears. "I think that his Excellency disapproved of my plan," said the Khan. "Did he?" cried Brigadier Appleton.
Luffe handed the watch and chain to Dewes, and opened the letter-case. There was a letter in it, written in a woman's handwriting, and besides the letter the portrait of a girl. He glanced at the letter and glanced at the portrait. Then he passed them on to Dewes. Dewes looked at the portrait with a greater care. The face was winning rather than pretty.
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