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"And know, too, that in those days I also was a soldier" this with a defiant glance first at the Rajput chief and then at the Afghan general. "At my side rattled the steel scabbard, and in my belt was the sharp poinard, swift messenger of death when it came to hand-to-hand fighting, and the horse I rode had its rich trappings of gold and silver.
The Rajput spoke with a strangely constrained voice all of a sudden, but the Commissioner did not notice it; he was too busy pulling on a wool-lined jacket to ward off the evening chill. "Well, risaldar what then?" "I think that I could teach the son of Cunnigan-bahadur to be worth his salt." "If you'll teach him to be properly respectful to his betters I'll be grateful to you, Mahommed Gunga."
Knowing that when Barlow arrived he would endeavour to see the Chief in his quarters, Hunsa daily hovered near the palace and chatted with the guard at the gates; the heavy double teak-wood gates, on one side of which was painted, on a white stone-wall, a war-elephant and the other side a Rajput horseman, his spear held at the charge.
Barlow put a finger under her chin, and lifting her face smiled like a great boy, saying: "Gulab, you are wonderfully sweet." Then Barlow went to the serai, looked after his horse, had his breakfast, and passed back into the town. The speaker was a Rajput.
Sumbal, "the master fireworker," as he is called in the old history books, was up betimes seeing to his men, and with him came a grave, silent man, who, though he had no interest in the quarrels of Humâyon and his brothers, was as eager as any to get within the walls of Kâbul and find what he sought a Râjput lad of whom word had been brought to a little half-desert Râjput state lying far away in the Jesulmer plain.
He had taken possession of a palace belonging to the Rajput Raja as his head-quarters, and his army of horsemen were encamped in tents on the vast sandy plain that extended from both sides of the river Nahal: the local name of this river was "The Stream of Blood," so named because a fierce force of Arab mercenaries in the employ of Sindhia, many years before, had butchered the entire tribe of Nahals man, woman, and child, higher up in the hills.
It was punctuated by the screams of women. The prisoners changed their attitude, and eyed Brown and the Rajput with an air of truculence again. "They'll be up this causeway in a minute, sahib! Listen. There! They've seen the dead bodies that you tossed over. Better it had been to keep them up here for a while." "Never mind! We can hold this causeway until morning! Men! Take close order.
Not four hours left before the eastern hills would begin to show dark against the coming of day. Once more Roy felt helpless and hopeless before the great task which seemed to be laid upon him. He alone out of all the little Heir-to-Empire's guardians knew the dire danger he was in. Yet how could he, a poor, prisoned Râjput lad, save the young prince?
He was a good soldier, Captain Barlow that happy mixture of brain and brawn and courage that had coloured so much of the world's map red, British; he was the terrier class all pluck, with perhaps the pluck in excelsis the brain-power not preponderant. "Who is the handsome native he looks like a Rajput?" Elizabeth asked, indicating the man who was evidently the leader among the others.
There are men with voices like yours. There's a long golden hair on your shoulder that might, of course, belong to some one else, but your ears are pierced " "So are many men's." "And you have blue eyes, and long fair lashes. I've seen occasional Rajput men with blue eyes, too, but your teeth much too perfect for a man." "For a young man?" "Perhaps not. But add one thing to another "
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