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Updated: June 1, 2025
All the mess plate was out on the long table the same table that had served up the bodies of five officers after a forgotten fight long and long ago the dingy, battered standards faced the door of entrance, clumps of winter-roses lay between the silver candlesticks, and the portraits of eminent officers deceased looked down on their successors from between the heads of sambhur, nilghai, markhor, and, pride of all the mess, two grinning snow-leopards that had cost Basset- Holmer four months' leave that he might have spent in England, instead of on the road to Thibet and the daily risk of his life by ledge, snow- slide, and grassy slope.
'A prophet has no honour in his own country, said Dick, ruefully, dusting his knees. 'This filthy fluff will never brush off my legs. 'It was all for your own good, said the Nilghai. 'Nothing like air and exercise. 'All for your good, said Torpenhow, not in the least with reference to past clowning.
'Do you remember that I paid it you ten days later, and you put it at the bottom of the tobacco? 'By Jove, did I? I thought it was in one of my colour-boxes. 'You thought! About a week ago I went into your studio to get some 'baccy and found it. 'What did you do with it? 'Took the Nilghai to a theatre and fed him.
It's your only chance of getting away; and Dick will be grateful. 'He will, worse luck! I can but go and try. I can't conceive a woman in her senses refusing Dick. 'Talk that out with the girl. I have seen you wheedle an angry Mahdieh woman into giving you dates. This won't be a tithe as difficult. You had better not be here to-morrow afternoon, because the Nilghai and I will be in possession.
But you can't help me you can't help me not even you. I must play my own hand alone in my own way. 'Hear, hear, from the Nilghai.
Indian coin worth about forty-eight cents. 50:21 vendettas. Private blood-feuds. 51:14 Punjab. Country of five rivers, tributaries of the Indus. 81:26 Sambhur. A rusine deer found in India. 51:26 nilghai. Antelope with hind legs shorter than its fore-legs. 54:9 expurgated. Purified. 57:23 renegade. One who deserts his faith. 58:26 candelabrum. Stand supporting several lamps. 61:3 urbanely.
Most probably never. 'What! any stuff you have in stock your best work? said Torpenhow. 'Anything you've sold? said the Nilghai. 'Oh no. It isn't here and it isn't sold. Better than that, it can't be sold, and I don't think any one knows where it is. I'm sure I don't.... And yet more and more wives, on the north side of the square. Observe the virtuous horror of the lions!
By the way, I wonder how many of the chorus are alive to-night, said Dick. Torpenhow considered for a minute. 'By Jove! I believe only you and I. Raynor, Vicery, and Deenes all dead; Vincent caught smallpox in Cairo, carried it here and died of it. Yes, only you and I and the Nilghai. 'Umph!
The darkness would not lift, and Maisie's unopened letters felt worn and old from much handling. He could never read them for himself as long as life endured; but Maisie might have sent him some fresh ones to play with. The Nilghai entered with a gift, a piece of red modelling-wax. He fancied that Dick might find interest in using his hands.
He could feel that it was full of men. 'Where's the trouble? said he. 'In the Balkans at last? Why didn't some one tell me? 'We thought you wouldn't be interested, said the Nilghai, shamefacedly. 'It's in the Soudan, as usual. 'You lucky dogs! Let me sit here while you talk. I shan't be a skeleton at the feast. Cassavetti, where are you? Your English is as bad as ever.
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