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The latter is the only clothing of young girls, and may be either perfectly simple or adorned with beads and cowrie shells according to the fancy of the wearer. It is perfectly effective as a dress, and admirably adapted to the climate. The rahat is a fringe of fine dark brown or reddish twine, fastened to a belt, and worn round the waist.
Although the tope or robe, loosely but gracefully arranged around the body, appears to be the whole of the costume, the women wear beneath this garment a thin blue cotton cloth tightly bound round the loins, which descends to a little above the knee; beneath this, next to the skin, is the last garment, the rahat the latter is the only clothing of young girls, and may be either perfectly simple or adorned with beads and cowrie shells according to the fancy of the wearer; it is perfectly effective as a dress, and admirably adapted to the climate.
For a moment Rahat Mian hesitated. There was no oath more binding, more sacred, than that which he was called upon to take. In the end he consented. "Then come here at eight to-morrow morning," said Ralston, and, dismissing the man, he gave instructions that he should be safely lodged. He sent word at the same time to Futteh Ali Shah, with whom, not for the first time, he had had trouble.
On either side are two long tassels, that are generally ornamented with beads or cowries, and dangle nearly to the ankles, while the rahat itself should descend to a little above the knee, or be rather shorter than a Highland kilt.
The feud went back many years to the date when Rahat Mian, without asking anyone's leave or paying a single farthing of money, secretly married the widowed mother of Futteh Ali Shah. Now Futteh Ali Shah was a boy of fourteen who had the right to dispose of his mother in second marriage as he saw fit, and for the best price he could obtain.
So I supposed; when to our intense astonishment, she no sooner was brought to the shore than she gave herself a shake, threw back her long hair, wrung out and arranged her dripping rahat, and walked leisurely back to the ford, which she crossed with the assistance of the Arab who had saved her.
"And Rahat Mian?" he asked. There was a momentary struggle in the zemindar's mind. But his fatigue and exhaustion were too heavy upon him. "He, too, shall go his own way. Neither I nor mine shall molest him." Ralston turned at once and mounted his horse. With a sigh of relief Futteh Ali Shah followed his example. "Shall we ride back together?" said Ralston, pleasantly.
And this deprivation of his rights kindled in him a great anger against Rahat Mian. He nursed it until he became a man and was able to buy for a couple of hundred rupees a good pedigree rifle a rifle which had belonged to a soldier killed in a hill-campaign and for which inquiries would not be made.
The eighteen months had written their history upon his face; he stood before Ralston, for all his youthful looks, a quiet, self-reliant man. "I have come down on leave, sir," he said. "On the way I fetched Rahat Mian out of his house and brought him in to Peshawur." Ralston looked up with interest. "Any trouble?" he asked. "I took care there should be none." Ralston nodded.
But while he stood his eyes roamed inquisitively about the room. "All this is strange to you, Rahat Mian," said Ralston. "How long is it since you left your house in the Khyber Pass?" "Five years, your Highness," said Rahat Mian, quietly, as though there were nothing very strange in so long a confinement within his doors. "Have you never crossed your threshold for five years?" asked Ralston.
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