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Updated: June 22, 2025
The others discussed the subject for some time, but no one could elucidate the mystery. At length Dermot said to Daleham: "No answer has come to that telegram you sent to Ranga Duar, I suppose?" "No, Major; though there's been plenty of time for a reply." "It's strange. Parker would have answered at once if he'd got the wire, I know," said Dermot. "But did he?
Noreen suddenly remembered the conversation at the club lunch. "Oh, are you the officer from the Fort up at Ranga Duar?" she asked. "One of them. I am commanding the detachment of Military Police there," he answered. "My name is Dermot." "Then I've heard of you. I understand now. They said that you could do wonderful things with wild elephants, that you went about the forest with a herd of them."
It would seem only natural to include the Officer Commanding Ranga Duar. And to tempt Dermot into the trap Chunerbutty suggested Noreen as a bait, undertaking to persuade her brother to bring her. The Rajah was delighted at the thought of her presence in the Palace. The Dewan smiled and quoted two Hindu proverbs: "Where the honey is spread there will the flies gather," said he.
Te Ranga.# The Maoris fell back a few miles and chose a strong position at Te Ranga for a new pah. They had only dug the ditches and made some rifle pits when the British were upon them. The troops carried the position with a rush, the Maoris standing up against the bayonets with the coolest courage. A hand-to-hand fight forced the natives out of the ditches, and then they turned and fled.
And it haunted him in his sleep when in dreams tiny arms were clasped around his neck and baby lips touched his lovingly. From the frontier of Bhutan, six thousand feet up on the face of the mountains, a line of men wound down the serpentining track that led to Ranga Duar.
The four transport elephants attached to the garrison of Ranga Duar for the purpose of bringing supplies for the men from the far distant railway were stabled in a peelkhana at the foot of the hills and a couple of thousand feet below the Fort.
The plot to raise him to the throne was temporarily successful, and Ranga III. and all the royal family were killed, saving only Ranga IV., who afterwards came to the throne.
One as he expired had a shadowy vision of some awful bulk towering black against the coming dawn. The sun was low in the heavens when Dermot awoke in a bracken-carpeted glade of the forest thirty miles away from Ranga Duar. Over him Badshah stood watchfully. The man yawned, rubbed his eyes and sat up. He looked at his watch. "Good Heavens! I've slept for hours!" he cried.
The heavy firing at Ranga Duar, echoed by the mountains, must have been heard in the district; and all the planters had probably taken the warning and gone away. He was racked with anxiety as to Noreen's fate and could only hope that at the first alarm her brother had hurried her off.
As to Sadasiva, some authorities make him, as stated above, nephew of Krishna Deva and son of Ranga, while another says that he was the son of Achyuta. An inscription at Conjeeveram states that Achyuta had a wife named Varada Devi who bore him a son, Venkata. Venkata was actually raised to the throne, but lived only a short time, and then young Sadasiva was crowned king.
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