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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Of course, if you wish," said Stuart, looking down at her as she walked by his side and wondering what he would do when he had to stand up in Court, look at Miska in the felon's dock and speak words which would help to condemn her perhaps to death, at least to penal servitude! He shuddered. "Have I said something that displeases you?" she asked, resting a white-gloved hand on his arm.
We will wait and watch -and listen for the bells here that tell they are in the grounds of the house." "Ah, Miska!" the glance of the Hindu grew fearful "you are clever but he is the Evil One! I fear for you. Fly now. There is yet time ..." A faint sound attracted Miska's attention. Placing a quivering finger to her lips, she gently thrust Chunda Lal out into the corridor.
Yes this door is unlocked." He threw the keys on the table. "I respect your promise ... and Chunda Lal guards the outer exits." He opened the further door, by which he had entered, and went out. Miska, through the fingers of her shielding hands, watched him go. When he had disappeared she sprang up, clenching her teeth, and her face was contorted with anguish.
Her heart beating wildly, for she did not know this mood but divined it to portend some unique horror, Miska crouched, head averted. "To-night the hour has come to break the whip. To-night the master in me dies. My cloak of wise authority has fallen from me and I offer myself in bondage to you, my slave!" "This is some trap you set for me!" she whispered.
Can you not understand " "Go! go!" She drew back from him, clenching and unclenching her jewelled fingers and glaring madly into his eyes. "Look, Miska!" He took the gold chain and amulet from his bosom. "Your token! Can you not understand! Yah Allah! how little you trust me and I would die for one glance of your eyes! "He Stuart Sahib has gone, gone long since!" "Ah! Chunda Lal!"
It was at this moment that Gaston Max, climbing up to the front balcony by means of the natural ladder afforded by the ancient ivy, grasped the iron railing and drew himself up to the level of the room. By this same stairway Chunda Lal had ascended to death and Miska had climbed down to life. "Mind the ironwork doesn't give way, sir!" called Dunbar from below. "It is strong," replied Max.
Sergeant Sowerby and two assistants remaining to watch the entrance and the lane, Miska led Stuart and the burly Inspector Kelly along that path beside the wall which Stuart so well remembered. "Hurry!" she whispered urgently. "We must try to reach him before ..." "You fear for Chunda Lal?" said Stuart. "Oh, yes! He has a terrible power Fo-Hi which he never employs with me, until to-night.
Grasping her shoulders, he twisted her about so that he could look into her eyes. A low, shuddering cry, died away, and her gaze became set, hypnotically, upon Fo-Hi. He raised one hand, fingers outstretched before her. She swayed slightly. "Forget!" he said in a deep, guttural voice of command "forget. I will it. We stand in an empty world, you and I; you, Miska, and I, Fo-Hi, your master."
Miska watched him with eyes in which a new, a wild expression was dawning. "If I tell you that life and not death awaits you, will you come away to-night, and we sail for India to-morrow! Ah! I have money! Perhaps I am rich as well as someone; perhaps I can buy you the robes of a princess" he drew her swiftly to him "and cover those white arms with jewels." Miska shrank from him.
"My master," she whispered mechanically. "Your lover." "My lover." "You give me your life, to do with as I will." "As you will." Fo-Hi momentarily raised the blazing eyes. "Oh, empty shell of a vanished joy!" he cried. Then, frenziedly grasping Miska by her arms, he glared into her impassive face. "Your heart leaps wildly in your breast!" he whispered tenderly. "Look into my eyes...."
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