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"Poggul!" said the Rajput once again. And this time the sentry looked and saw cold steel within three inches of his eye! "Your rifle!" said the Rajput. "Hand it here!" And, to save his eyesight, the sentry complied, while the Rajput's ivory-white teeth grinned at him pleasantly. "Now, hands to your sides! Attention!
Sumbal's hand swings the portfire to the breech. Roy sees it, throws up his arms wildly, and with a cry "The bastion! The bastion! The Heir-to-Empire!" falls headlong into the Râjput's arms. "What did he say?" asked the master fireworker, pausing half surprised, half angry. But the Râjput was too busy tearing aside Roy's flimsy, bloodstained waistcoat to answer.
Roy, tumbled from some starry dream of his own, flashed out imperiously: "Look alive, you blithering idiot. 'Who are you a-shoving'?" The Rajput's face darkened; but before he could retort, Tara had risen and stepped swiftly to his side. Her fingers closed on the pole; and she smiled straight into his clouded eyes. "Let me, please. I'm sick of lazing and fearfully keen.
The soldierly sternness had gone out of it: it shone only with paternal pride and love as he added: "To-day Brenda, our first-born, is the light of my home, and a year hence she will be married to the Rajah of Jodhpur, to make the heart of that great and noble prince of the Rajputs happy for ever-more." And so ended the Rajput's tale.
For the first time Cunningham noticed the fine European workmanship on the sword-hilt, and realized that the Rajput's usual plain, workmanlike weapon had been replaced. "That is Byng-bahadur's sword of honor! It reached me a few minutes ago. The man who brought it is barely out of sight. It means, sahib, that the hour to act is come!" "But " "Sahib this sending thee to Howrah is my doing?
On the other hand, he recognized Tom as almost indispensable; he could put a lick and polish on the maharajah's troops that no amount of cursing and coaxing by their own officers accomplished. Tom understood to a nicety that drift of the Rajput's martial mind that caused each sepoy to believe himself the equal of any other Rajput man, but permitted him to tolerate fierce disciplining by an alien.
I came because Colonel Lord Montdidier sahib sent me with a squadron of these mountain horsemen fine horsemen they are fit by the breath of Allah to draw steel at a Rajput's back!" "He sent you to find me?" "Ha, sahib. To rescue you alive if that were possible." "How did he know where I was?" "An Armenian by name of Ephraim came and said you had gone over to the Turks.
They dressed up Tess in man's clothes a young Rajput's a suit Yasmini had worn on one of her wild excursions, and what with the coiled turban of yellow silk and a little black mustache adjusted by cunning fingers she felt as happy as a child in fancy dress. But she found it more difficult to imitate the Rajput walk than Yasmini did to copy her tricks of carriage.
"As for me," continued Amber, "I suspect I'm the most hopeless ass in the three Presidencies, if that's any comfort to you, Salig Singh. Now what d'you want with me?" A shadowy smile softened the blackness of the Rajput's wrath. He shrugged and moved his hands slightly, exposing their palms, subtly signifying his submission. "Thou art my overlord," he said quietly, with a silky deference.
Though she were veiled, it were deep dishonour for a woman of a Rajput's household to be seen by a stranger. It seemed inexplicable that Salig Singh should have wittingly left him in any place where he might encounter an inmate of the zenana. Yet the Maharana must have known.... Amber made an irresolute movement, as if to go. But it was too late.
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