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Updated: May 17, 2025
Since then I have managed to see her sometimes by stealth, and have loved her; but I have never dared to clothe her in any but humble garments no silks, no bangles, no jewels of any kind lest suspicion should be aroused. "'Oh, great master, forgive your humble slave, moaned the old crone, Rakaya, grovelling in a corner of the room. "But to my wife only I paid heed.
We spared her, Rakaya and I; we bribed Runjit, who is now dead, and to whom you gave the terrible orders, and Rakaya smuggled the babe safe away to the cottage of the woodcutters.
At the same moment her old attendant and confidant, Rakaya, flung herself at my feet, and began to babble for my forgiveness. "'What means this? I asked, glancing in profound amazement from the woman's prostrate form up into my wife's eyes. There again I read the strangely troubled expression.
Puzzled, yet restraining my curiosity before the others gathered around, I placed the wounded child in my wife's arms, and, with a gesture to signify that she and Rakaya were to follow, I led the way to the women's quarters.
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