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Updated: June 9, 2025
'Pon my soul, it seems he knew this was coming and picked me from the start to take charge over here. Seems, owing to my dad's reputation, these Rangars think me a sort of reincarnation of efficiency. I've got to try and live up to it, you know same old game of reaping what you didn't sow and hoping it'll all be over before you wake up! Won't you try and get some sleep before morning? No?
The five behind even the mule-drivers too detected excitement in the air, and the little column closed in on its leaders. All eyes watched the neck-and-neck approach of Alwa's men, until Cunningham at last could see their turbans and make out that they were Rangars, not Hindoos. Then he and the Risaldar drew rein. There were twenty who raced toward them, but no Alwa.
Apparently, then, Ali Partab a prisoner in Jaimihr's palace-yard was the only connecting link between him and the Rangars whom he wished to win over to his side.
Therefore, he decided that under no circumstances should Rosemary McClean be treated cavalierly until the Rangars were out of the way and he could pose as her protector if need be. He would be able to prove that Rosemary and her father had come to him of their own free will. He would say that they had asked him for protection from the Rangars.
"He means to bottle up the Rangars' leader, and so checkmate all of them!" The eight hundred horsemen on the plain below rode carelessly through Alwa's gardens, leaving trampled confusion in their wake, and lined up with Jaimihr at their head immediately before the great iron gate. A moment later four men rode closer and hammered on it with their lance-ends.
"And Jaimihr is er in love with you!" "He tried very hard to prove it, in his own objectionable way!" "And Jaimihr wants the throne and Howrah wants to send a force against the British, but dare not move because of Jaimihr I have Mahommed Gunga and five or six men to depend on the Rangars are sitting on the fence and the government has its hands full! The lookout's bright!
The Rangars came to take their man away. They broke in. They burn. They loot. They " But Jaimihr did not wait another instant to hear the rest. To him this seemed like the scheming of his brother. Now he imagined he could read between the lines! That letter sent to Alwa had been misreported to him, and had been really a call to come and free the prisoner and wreak Rangar vengeance! He understood!
He understood why Byng had signed the transfer, and he knew knew knew deep down inside him that his chance had come! "It seems that another Cunningham is to have the honor of preserving Rangars' titles for them," he smiled. "How many horsemen could the Alwa-sahib raise?" "That would depend!" Alwa was in no mood to commit himself.
He agreed to join Jaimihr in opposition to the Rangars. He agreed to send all his forces to meet Jaimihr's and together kill every Rangar who should show himself inside the city. And he privately made plans to arrive on the scene too late, and smash Jaimihr's army after it had been reduced in size and efficiency by its battle with Alwa's men.
So the proposed allegiance of the Rangars suited him in more ways than one. His army and his brother's were so evenly matched in numbers and equipment that he had been able to leave Howrah without fear for the safety of his palace while his back was turned.
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