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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Ah-ha!" and a man, stooping, thrust it into the hands of the Commander. The Pindari who held the turban, threw it almost at the feet of Bootea, saying, "Methinks the slayer will need this no more." Bootea picked up the blue cloth and rolled it into a ball, saying, "If it is permitted I will take this to those who entrusted Hunsa with this foul mission to show them that he is dead."
From the Dhakuri pass the path descends about 2000 feet, and then follows the valley of the Pindari river. The scenery here is magnificent. Unlike that of the Sarju, this valley is narrow. It is not much cultivated; amaranthus is almost the only crop grown. The villages are few and the huts which constitute them are rudely constructed.
A jealous lover, perhaps, I think it would not have been Ayub Alli by any chance?" What Barlow was thinking, was, "A most subtle animal, this." And he now understood why the Pindari, as if he had forgotten the message, was talking of the Gulab; as an Oriental he was coming to the point in circles. "It was not, Chief," Barlow answered.
This information coming from Bootea was astounding. Neither Resident Hodson nor Captain Barlow had suspected that there had been a leak. "And was there talk of this message from the British to ?" Barlow checked. "To the Sahib?" Bootea asked. "Not of the message; but it was whispered that one would go to the Pindari camp to talk with Amir Khan, and perhaps it was the Sahib they meant.
And the night palpitated with the beat of horses' feet upon the hard sand and against the stony ford of the parched river as the Pindari horsemen swept to Rajgar as if they rode in the sack of a city. Hoarse bull-throated cries calling the curse of Allah upon the murderer were like a deep-voiced hymn of hate it was continuous.
And I, myself, years of hard riding and combat having taken me out of my colt-days, wondered why the Chief, being busy otherwise, and a man of short temper, should entail labour in the way of claiming her regard. I may say, Sahib, that a Pindari seizes upon what he wants and backs the claiming with his sword.
It was promised that no Pindari should wound or kill thee, dog, but they will help thee on thy way."
"In the name of Allah we are," came as a sonorous chorus from one and all. "And are ye agreed that it shall be said to the Captain Sahib, who is envoy from the Englay, that we ride in peace to his people, or ride not at all in war?" "Allah! it is agreed," came the response. He turned to Barlow. "Captain Sahib, thou hast heard. The word of a Pindari, taken in the name of Allah, is inviolate.
Even as the tiger slinks in dread from a pack of the red wild-dogs, so a regular force might well dread these flying horsemen. And it was Amir Khan that Nana Sahib, and the renegade French commander, Jean Baptiste, dreaded and distrusted. Overtures had been made to him without result. He was a wonderful leader. He had made the name of the Pindari feared throughout India.
But they were now at their camp, and the jamadars, standing together for a little, settled it that the omens being favourable, and the wrath of the Dewan feared, they would take the way to the Pindari camp next day.
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