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Seize every servant that is within and bind him; let none escape." He swept a hand out toward the Pindaris in the street that were like a pack of wolves: "Up the hill surround the palace! and guard every window and rat-run!" The guard saluted, venturing: "Commander, none could have entered from outside to do the foul deed."
God in heaven! to think I should ever have loved such a thing. Oh! I am shamed, I am shamed. I'll go wash my hands. Shut your trap and get you gone down your rat-run, Thomas Bolle, and, living or dead, never dare to speak to me again. Also forget not to tell your monks how I called you to my side for that's witchcraft, you know, and I shall burn for it, and your soul gain benefit.
Yasmini laughed at him merry, mocking laughter that stung him because it was so surely genuine. She did not need to tell him in words that she was not afraid of him; she could laugh in his face and make the truth sink deeper. "And now what will the burra sahib do?" she mocked. "There is war a great war a war of all the world but Yasmini fired a rat-run and avenged a murdered Sikh.
This is the smugglers' warren." She caught a hint of humour in his voice. "The stream flows underground all through here and very useful we have found it." She gave a great start at his words. "You you are not a smuggler!" she said. He drew her on. "I am a good many things," he said, easily, "and the king of this rat-run amongst them. There's no one knows it as well as I do." Her heart sank.
I am not cut out for rat-run soldiering! I am willing to leave this house and hold my tongue, and to take this trooper with me and see that he holds his tongue. By nine tomorrow morning I will have satisfied myself that you are for and not against the Raj. And having satisfied myself, I and this trooper here will hold our tongues for ever. Bass!"
"Any bodies recovered?" asked Colonel Kirby, leaning from the seat of his high dogcart to speak to the English fireman who stood sentry over the water-plug. "No, sir. The fire had too much headway before the alarm went in. When we got here the whole lower part was red-hot." "Any means of escape from the building from the rear?" "As many as from a rat-run, sir.
Only Ranjoor Singh took no vacation, remaining ever on the watch, passing from one trench to another, conversing ever with the enemy. We dug and they dug, each side laboring everlastingly to find the other's listening places and to blow them up by means of mining, so that the earth became a very rat-run.
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