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'Where? and who? she asked. 'In the wood-cutting. It is Reo. He spoke as a man who speaks unwillingly. Hazel gave a little cry at that, and turning suddenly flew into the house. The next thing was the flutter of her light foot outside among the trees. But, overtaken the next minute, she was stopped by a hand on her arm and held fast. However Dane spoke very gently.
'My little lady! he said fondly, 'I knew she would come. 'O Reo O Reo! I am so sorry! she said, her eyes growing wet. 'No need Miss Wych, dear, said Reo, smiling at her, though his own eyes moistened to see hers. 'And it was just cutting those trees that I did not want cut! 'Aye, but they do want cutting though, Miss Wych, said Reo. 'Mr. Falkirk is right. And Mr. Rollo.
'Helping Reo? she said. 'Not directly. He made a misstep, I think, among the confusion of branches cut and uncut with which the ground was encumbered; slipped off one of them, perhaps; somehow gave his foot a twist, and there he is. That was the cause of my long delay. He spoke, watching the little lady all the while.
"But we've got to get to a place where there's work," Daddy reminded him. They went to see the car, and found it a big, strong old Reo, with fairly good tires. So they bought it. Grandma had one piece of jewelry left, besides her wide gold wedding ring a cameo brooch. She traded it for a nanny goat.
The servants passing to and fro about their work smiled to each other; Mrs. Bywank came by turns to the door to catch a look or a word; Reo himself lifted his brown hand and made believe it was to brush away the perspiration.
But when she was shut in, she heard an unwelcome voice saying to the coachman, 'Drive slowly, Reo; the night is very dark; and immediately the carriage door was opened again, and the speaker took his seat beside her; without asking leave this time. A passing glare from the lamps of another carriage shewed her head and hands down on the window-sill, in the way she had come from Greenbush.
Boorhau Reo feels that he is in danger of being swallowed, by the nizam or by the Mahrattas, and he earnestly desires to ally himself with us; believing, as he says, that we are destined to be masters here. I have assured him that, although gratified at his expressions of friendship, we can enter into no alliance with him.
The old Reo had bumped along on its rim for an hour when Grandma said in a thin voice, "Next time we come to any likely shade, I guess we best stop. I'm . . . I'm just beat out." With an anxious backward glance at her, Daddy stopped the car under a tree. "I reckon some of you better go on to that town and get some bread and maybe weenies and potatoes," Grandma said faintly.
Ten days later, they heard that the army of the nizam, of fifteen thousand troops, with eight hundred French under Bussy, were marching against them; and that the horsemen of Murari Reo were devastating the villages near the frontier. A council of war was held.
A few discharges from the field pieces those in the castle had been ordered to be silent until the raising of a white flag gave them the signal to open fire checked the advance of the horsemen, and these waited until their infantry should arrive. The force of Murari Reo was, at that time, the most formidable of any purely native army of Southern India.
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