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Writing to Payne, 15th January, 1883, Burton says, "Has Arbuthnot sent you his Vatsyayana? Please encourage him." Later Arbuthnot, in reply to a question put to him by a friend, said that the Society consisted practically of himself, Sir Richard Burton and the late Lord Houghton. Bibliography: 70. The Ananga Ranga.
He never wrote, and her brother seldom mentioned him in his letters; for during Parker's absence on two months' privilege leave from Ranga Duar Dermot did not quit it often and very rarely visited the planters' club or the bungalows of any of its members. And Noreen wanted news of him.
He used to call her that sometimes in Ranga Duar. She was still his little friend. What a delightful place the world was after all! As he pencilled his initials on her programme a horde of dance-hungry men swooped down on Noreen and almost pushed him aside. He bowed and strolled away to watch the dancing.
Christmas came; and with its coming Ranga Duar woke again to life. Besides the Bensons and Carter, who now brought his wife, Mrs. Dermot's brother a subaltern in an Indian cavalry regiment and five planters, old friends of his from the district in which he had once been a planter himself, came to spend Christmas in the small station.
Yet now he sat in his little stone bungalow in Ranga Duar, while the terrific thunder crashed and roared among the hills, and read with a pleased smile an official letter ordering him to proceed forthwith to Darjeeling as gay a pleasure colony as any to meet the General Commanding the Division, who was visiting the place on inspection duty.
"I shall be afraid to leave the bungalow." "I heard that the fellow commanding the Military Police detachment at Ranga Duar was nearly killed by a rogue lately," remarked an engineer named Goddard. "Our mahout had the story from one of the mahouts of the Fort. He had a cock-and-bull yarn about the sahib being saved by his tame elephant, a single-tusker, which drove off the rogue.
Noreen had quite recovered from her surprise and smiled brightly at him. "Yes, I believed you to be in Ranga Duar," she said. "How is it you are here?" "An unexpected summons reached me at the same time as your letter. Four days ago I had no idea that I should be coming here." "How could you bear to leave your beloved jungle and that dear Badshah?
"'Major Dermot, at present commanding the detachment of the Military Battalion stationed at Ranga Duar, has been specially selected, on account of his acquaintance with the districts and dialects of the duars and that part of the Terai Forest bordering on Bhutan, to carry out a particular mission.
And the tale of them rarely reaches the ear of the representatives of the Suzerain Power or the columns of the daily press. A dark pall enveloped the mountains, and over Ranga Duar raged one of the terrifying tropical thunderstorms that signalise the rains of India. Unlike more temperate climes this land has but three Seasons.
From his description of Ranga Duar and its inhabitants it could be no place for her under the circumstances. No; there was nothing to do but to wait. Besides, it was so very jolly now at Poona. Frank must not be an impatient boy; and she sent him all her love. His cheque she had torn up. The subaltern whistled, read the letter again very carefully, folded and put it away. What had come to Violet?
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