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A. Some personal affair of long time ago which he wish to settle the same which make him so many year travel through India. Q. Was he in search of someone? A. Yes, Sahib. Q. Some Indian woman? A. No, Sahib. Q. Some other woman, then? A. No, Sahib. Q. A man, then; an Englishman, A. Yes, Sahib. Q. What kind of a man is this Ragobah? A. He very big man. Q. What is his disposition?
"That his left foot has met with an injury, and is probably deformed; that most likely he is lame in the left leg; that he had the motive for which we have been looking; that he may or may not have the habit of biting his nails; that he is crafty, and that if he were to do murder it is almost certain his methods would be novel and surprising, as well as extremely difficult to fathom in short, that suspicion points unmistakably to Rama Ragobah.
Q. Let me see you both, then, to-night at eight, at Herr Blaschek's villa on Malabar Hill. Ask for Mr. Maitland. A. We be there. Anything more, Sahib? Q. Yes. When is Ragobah expected to return? A. He write that he think he return on the Dalmatia. She due next day after to-morrow. Q. Has Ragobah any physical peculiarities? A. His hands and feet they very small for man so big and strong.
He left behind him a written statement describing his wooing of Lona Scindia and his experiences with Rama Ragobah. He asserted, furthermore, his belief that he would die by Ragobah's hand, the hand which twice before had attempted his life.
It riveted me to the spot with the fascination of horror. He shook his fist at me fiercely, as he shrieked from the back of his throat: "You infidel cur! You may as well try to brush away the Himalyas with a silk handkerchief as to escape the wrath of Rama Ragobah. Go! Bury yourself in seclusion at the farthermost corner of the earth, and on one night Ragobah and the darkness shall be with you!"
"Indeed, I regret to say," he rejoined, "that I have been unable thus far to be of any real service to you. The Ragobah clue was a miserable failure, though we may do ourselves the justice to admit that we had no alternative but to follow it to the end. I confess I have never been more disappointed than in the outcome of this affair."
I would give everything I possess on earth, and would gladly suffer a life of torment, to be able truthfully to say: 'I, Rama Ragobah, killed John Darrow. But despite all my efforts, I, wretch that I am, am innocent! For more than twenty years I have had but one purpose, one thought, and that was to track down and slay John Darrow. This desire consumed me.
"You naturally wish to know," Ragobah began, "why I have sought this interview. That is easily explained. You have done me the honour, Sahib, for I feel it is such, to suspect me of the murder of John Darrow. You have come here from America to fasten the crime upon me, and, from the bottom of my heart, I regret your failure to do so.
I replied that I thought we might reasonably expect news of importance within five or six days, and that, so far as Maitland's return was concerned, I did not look for it for as many weeks, as he would doubtless have to cope with the law's delay there, as he would if here, and to comply with many tedious formalities before the government would allow Ragobah to be brought to this country for trial.
In an instant life became an inexpressible benefaction, for it permitted me to realise I was beloved, and death was dowered with a new horror the fear that I should cease to know it. I was roughly aroused from my reflections by Rama Ragobah. "Come, Sahib," he said, as his thick lips curled sneeringly, "suppose you try your spells upon me?
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