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Updated: June 18, 2025
But Rachel Linton quietly wished him success, and Tom went off telling himself that it would look foolish if he did not go. He had not far to go to the landing-place now; but in the little space close by the resident's garden he encountered Private Gray, who saluted him, and sent Tom on thinking that he wished he was as old, and good-looking, and as manly, as the young soldier he had just passed.
"Ah, you keep to your old belief in the lancet, then, Doctor," came in the Resident's pleasant, firm tones. "In a case like this, certainly, sir. All the better for losing a little of their hot, fiery blood. Set of quarrelsome, jealous fools. Here we are, thousands of miles from home and Ould Ireland, amongst these tribes, all of them spoiling for a fight."
Ladies in the hills whose husbands were on service did not accept invitations in those benighted days, and Honour had naturally remained with her sister. Their bungalow stood a little higher than the Resident's Lodge, and the effect of the torches by which all the guests were lighted along the hill-paths was very pretty from their verandah.
The beliefs and customs with regard to deer, horned cattle, dogs, and the tiger-cat, are similar to those of the Kenyahs save that they will not kill the last of these. They are perhaps more strict in the avoidance of deer and cattle. One old chief, who had been ailing for a long time, hesitated to enter the Resident's house because he saw a pair of horns hanging up there.
The coveted post of leading the column was given to a company of the West African Frontier Force. They were a little sorry that they were so soon to leave the place. The fort itself was a handsome, square stone building, with towers at the four corners. The resident's quarters had a balcony, and excellent rooms. There was also, of course, barrack accommodation, store rooms, and a well.
Still, if Sher Singh should have the brilliant inspiration of seeking an interview with Colonel Antony, and having learnt a lesson from his previous failure, present himself merely as a disinherited innocent of pacific tendencies, it was quite likely that he would establish in the Resident's mind a prepossession in his favour which would tell heavily against little Kharrak Singh.
Neither letter nor messenger, indeed, ever reached the Resident's door, although Captain Phillips learned something of the letter's contents a day before the messenger was due. A queer, and to use his own epithet, a dramatic stroke of fortune aided him at a very critical moment. It happened in this way.
Every morning a boat came off with a load, the fore part being generally crammed with freshly-cut flowers; and later on in the day the resident's boat would be sent ashore to return the compliment. Tom Long generally had the honour of being the escort, and marching a fatigue party up to the sultan's residence, with something likely to gratify his highness.
Help, Captain Down I I " and, trembling and half-breathless, she clung to the speaker as he caught her hands in his. "The Resident's boat?" she panted. "No, no Rajah Hamet's. We have been to see him off." "Oh, you don't understand! The Resident's boat Mr Maine " "Ah! What of him?" "Went up the river with my niece." "Yes, yes what of them?" "Not come back!" "Oh! Well, well, don't be alarmed.
"Sir," said the Ambassador; "there is one at least at the Venetian Resident's." Again I broke in. Time was passing quickly. "Sir," said I, "for God's sake let me go first to Her Majesty's apartments. I'll be bound there's one at least there that knows English. Let this gentleman come with me." The Duke stared at me as if bewildered.
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