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Updated: May 29, 2025
In Tooni's pocket a little black book swung to and fro; it was the memsahib's book; and in the beginning of the firing, before the fever came, Tooni had seen the memsahib reading it long and often. They had not been killed in consequence, Tooni thought; there must be a protecting charm in the little black book; so she slipped it into her pocket. They left the looking-glass behind.
'Therefore, Surnoo continued, 'I have brought back your honour's letter, and the other I had from the hand of the memsahib's runner, the runner with one eye, who was on the road to bring it here. More I do not know, but it appears that the memsahib has gone to her father and mother in Belaat, being very sorrowful because the Colonel-sahib has left her to shoot.
Here Cazi Moto came up in great perturbation to announce that two of the memsahib's porters were missing. The little headman did not understand how it happened, as he had zealously brought up the rear. Unless, of course, it was a case of desertion. Kingozi looked thoughtful, then ordered camp to be pitched. Accompanied by Simba, Mali-ya-bwana, and three askaris he took the back track.
The memsahib had gone in the cart and the chota baba the Sonny Sahib had always had good milk and she had taken none of the memsahib's ornaments, only her little black book with the charm in it. 'The little baby. 'That is true talk, interposed Sunni, 'Tooni's words are all true. Here is the little black book. Colonel Starr had the face of a man in a dream, half conscious and trying to wake up.
Morbid sort of fancy I call it; but I've got to do what the Memsahib tells me. Would you believe that the man she hired it from tells me that all four of the men they were brothers died of cholera on the way to Hardwar, poor devils, and the 'rickshaw has been broken up by the man himself. 'Told me he never used a dead Memsahib's 'rickshaw. 'Spoiled his luck. Queer notion, wasn't it?
I felt sure now that it was at that bank that the jewels had been placed, and that you had been waiting till the young memsahib's birthday for the news that they might be taken out; then you went to Mr. Chetwynd's, and he went to the bank. I had no doubt that he was to take them out for you, and after that one of the men never took his eyes off him when he was outside of his house.
"Then ask the memsahib's permission to pass through the house and leave by the back way." Tess, more amused than ever, nodded consent and clapped her hands for Chamu to come and do the honors. "I'll wait here," she said, "and welcome the commissioner." "But you, Your Ladyship?" Tom Tripe scratched his head in evident confusion. "I've got to account for you, you know." "You haven't seen me.
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