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But the Reo had had to have a new gas-line and a battery, and little money was left to show for the long, sizzling months of work. It was best to stay clear of cities. The Sacramento Delta region was the strangest the Beechams had ever seen. The broad river, refreshing after months without real rivers, was higher than the fields. Beside the river ran the highway.
And the Reo groaned and puffed. Up through Colorado they chugged; past Pike's Peak; through Denver, flat on the plain with a blue mountain wall to its west; on through the farmlands north of it to the sugar-beet town which was their goal. Beyond the town stood an adobe village for beetworkers on the Lukes fields, where the Beechams were to work.
It was one day after a ride for she's had the beautifullest horse, sir! since you've been away, I guess; and she'd ride every morning before breakfast, and come home looking Well I can't begin to tell! said Phoebe, enthusiastically. 'But Reo said it was the flush of the morning going through his gate. The bay lifted up one foot and struck it impatiently on the ground.
"It may not do much good," Charlie said, "but if we can induce him to remain quiet, until we have defeated Murari Reo, it will be so much gained." Charlie himself despatched a messenger to Mr. Saunders, begging that assistance might be sent to the rajah. Having decided upon the position for a battery, energetic steps were taken to form it.
Before the bayonets crossed they broke and fled, hotly pursued by the troops of the rajah. These, in accordance with Charlie's orders, did not scatter, but kept in a close line, four deep, which advanced, pouring tremendous volleys into their foe. In vain did Murari Reo endeavour to rally his men.
At the feet of some of the women stood boxes with babies in them; and other babies were slung in cloths on their mothers' backs. There was no work for the Beechams, and they climbed into the Reo once more and stared down on the other side of the road, where the foreman had told them his packers lived. Even from that distance it was plain that this was a Chinese village, not American at all.
It was between eight and nine o'clock one evening, two or three days later, when Mr. Rollo was informed that some one wanted to speak to him. It was Reo Hartshorne. 'Very glad to see you home, sir, said Reo earnestly; he was a man of few words. 'I beg pardon but are you going to the Governor's to-night, Mr. Rollo? 'Powder? No.
I should like to have the whole, if possible, before I get home which seems likely to be about breakfast time. 'Reo is driving as fast as he ought to drive, such a night. What do you mean by "what comes next"? 'You said, I thought, you had several things to speak of. 'I remember. I was going to ask you to go to see Gyda sometimes.
At one time the Peishwar and the Nizam, as the Subadar of the Deccan was now called, would be fighting in alliance against one or other of the Mahratta chiefs. At another time they would be in conflict with each other, while the Rajah of Mysore, Murari Reo, and other chiefs were sometimes fighting on one side, sometimes on another.
Indeed, the promises, of which he had been obliged to be lavish to his native allies, to keep them faithful to his cause, when that cause seemed all but lost, now came upon him to trouble him; and so precarious was his position, that he was obliged to ask the English to leave two hundred English troops, and fifteen hundred of their Sepoys, to protect the place against Murari Reo, and the Rajahs of Mysore and Tanjore.
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