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Then the women were made to gather up King's belongings, and at a word from the mullah they started in single file the mullah leading, then two men, then King, then the Orakzai Pathan, and then the other three.
"Then you can escape from your unpleasant predicament by going in there, Sir," said the Pathan. "I shall remine where I ham," was the dignified answer. "And so shall I," said the Pathan. "Out yer go," said the bagman, rising threateningly. "I am afraid I shall have to put you to the trouble of ejecting me," said the Pathan, with a smile.
"Thou shalt hear his voice, Pir Saheb," he promised. An hour later the African-looking camel-man and the Pathan approached the gates of the Military Prison and at a distance of a couple of hundred yards the African imitated the cry of a jackal, the barking of a dog and the call of the "Did-ye-do-it" bird.
Only novelty was a splendid Pathan chap, got-up in English except for the conical cap and puggri. Extraordinarily like Ross-Ellison, except that he had long black Pathan hair on his shoulders. Been to England; barrister probably, and seemed the most viciously seditious of the lot.
Our Pathan Sepoys, the Intelligence Branch, and an enterprising cavalry, should obtain all the facts that a general requires to use in his plans. At least the responsibility can thus be definitely assigned. On one point, however, I have no doubts. The political officers must be under the control of the General directing the operations. There must be no "Imperium in imperio."
I think a smoke would brace me up." Bruce laughed and passed up a broken cigar, which the colonel lighted carefully. The weariness seemed to go out of his face magically. "This Bala Khan should be Mohammedan," said Bruce. "The Pathan despises the Hindu." "There are Hindus in yonder city; quite as many," said Ramabai, "as there are Mohammedans.
The scarlet-clad officers who serve the monarchy of Great Britain have conquered many a barbarous people in all the ends of the earth, and hold for their sovereign the lands of Moslem and Hindoo, of Tartar and Arab and Pathan, of Malay, Negro, and Polynesian. In many a war they have overcome every European rival against whom they have been pitted.
In the year 1275 Lakumsi became Rana of Chitor. His uncle Bheemsi had married Padmani, a fair daughter of Ceylon, and her beauty was such that the fame of it came to the ears of Alla-o-din, the Pathan Emperor.
"Half a mile, then. You who were seen to slay a fellow soldier of your regiment, and I who am a political offender, do not win pardons so easily as that" "Would they hang us?" That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose.
A call to surrender the fort to Sindhia's officers being refused by the high-spirited Pathan lady, gave Ismail Beg occasion to reappear upon the scene. He hastened to her aid, but found the place surrounded by a force under the command of M. Perron, a French officer whose name will often recur hereafter. The Beg, as usual, attacked furiously, and, as usual, was defeated.
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