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Updated: June 9, 2025
The request may be anything from a human life to a tribal alliance, and no Fijian is so dead to honor as to deny the request when once the tooth has been accepted. Sometimes the request hangs fire, or the fulfilment is delayed, with untoward consequences. High up the Rewa, at the village of a chief, Mongondro by name, John Starhurst rested at the end of the second day of the journey.
"If you were to go back to India except as its conqueror, they would strip the buttons from your uniform and tear your medals off and shoot you in the back against a wall! My signature is known in India and I am known. What I write will be believed. Rewa Gunga shall take a letter. He shall take two four witnesses.
"Will you not understand that if you pass that curtain you shall know all things that Yasmini knows, but that you shall cease to be yourself? Cease to be yourself! Is my meaning clear?" "Not in the least," said King, "but I hope mine is!" "You will go forward?" "Yes," said King. Rewa Gunga made no answer to that, although King waited for an answer.
"Know anything of Rewa Gunga?" King asked him. "Not much. Tried to buy his mare. Seen the animal? Gad! I'd give a year's pay for that beast! He wouldn't sell and I don't blame him." "He goes up the Khyber with me," said King. "He's what the Turks would call my youldash." "And the Persians a hamrah, eh? There was an American here lately merry fellow and I was learning his language.
He had given his bag of medicines and implements to a man to carry ahead of him and had gone perhaps ten paces into the dark when a strong hand gripped him by the wrist. "Hush!" said a voice that seemed familiar. He turned swiftly and looked straight into the eyes of the Rangar Rewa Gunga! "How did you get here?" he asked in English. "Any fool could learn the password into this camp!
You do not know yet? Then I will tell you something else you do not know. I was in Delhi when you were! I watched and listened while you and Rewa Gunga talked in my house! I was in Rewa Gunga's carriage on the train that he took and you did not! I have learned at first hand that you are not a fool. But that was not enough! You had to be three things clever and brave and one other.
If Rewa Gunga had been near enough to her and intimate enough with her not only to become scented with her unmistakable perfume but even to get her hair on his person, then gone was all imagination of her love for himself! Then she had lied from first to last!
But from five or ten yards away that might have been a new note in the gaining wind or even nothing. After a while King's cheroot went out, and be threw it away. A little later Rewa Gunga threw away his cigarette.
The Pathan began speaking in a whisper and King, riding with lowered head as if he were studying the dangerous track, listened with both ears. "She sent her man Rewa Gunga toward the Khyber with a message," he whispered. "He took a few men with him, and he is to send them with the message when they reach the Khyber, but he is to come back.
Then he begged an envelope, and Rewa Gunga had one brought to him. He sealed the list in the envelope, addressed it and beckoned Ismail again. "Take this to Saunders sahib!" he ordered. "Go first to the telegraph office, where you were before, and the babu there will tell you where Saunders sahib may be found. Having found him, deliver the letter to him.
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