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But he still preferred that she should tell him, and his lips shut tight. "Why, having ordered your death, did I countermand the order when your life had been attempted once? Why, as soon as Rewa Gunga had seen you, did I order you to be aided in every way?" Still he did not answer, although the solution to that riddle, too, was beginning to dawn on his consciousness.
And tomorrow we will have more talk about the house before we sell the pearl. It will be better if we take the thousand French in cash. Money is ever better than credit in buying goods from the traders." It was in the early days in Fiji, when John Starhurst arose in the mission house at Rewa Village and announced his intention of carrying the gospel throughout all Viti Levu.
"He'll make a good adjutant for you, that man," said Courtenay; but King only grunted. At sight of them Ismail left the line and came hurrying toward them with long mountainman's strides. "Tell Rewa Gunga sahib that I wish to speak to him!" King called, and Ismail hurried back again. Within two minutes the Rangar stood facing them, looking more at ease than they.
She trusts him, so we've got to, and you've got to take him up the Khyber with you. What she orders, he'll do, or you may take it from me she would never have left him behind. As long as she is on our side you will be pretty safe in trusting Rewa Gunga. And she has got to be on our side. Got to be! She's the only key we've got to Khinjan, and hell is brewing there this minute!
"They will be sure you are mad, and they will believe the witnesses!" He bowed. She sealed the letter and addressed it with only a scrawled mark on its outer cover. That, by the way, was utter insolence, for the mark would be understood at any frontier post by the officer commanding. "Rewa Gunga shall start with this to-day!" she said, with more amusement than malice.
The "Hills" ever loved to deal with men in authority, just as they ever despised underlings. "What made you go back for the prisoners?" the general asked. "Who gave you that cue?" "It's a safe rule never to do what the other man expects, sir, and Rewa Gunga expected me to travel by his train." "Was that your only reason?" "No, sir. I had general reasons. None of 'em specific.
I suppose it was a case of "In Rome do as Rome does," but he certainly looked better in the dark skin he wore at his birth. I was shown the large rock by the river where more than a thousand people had been killed for their cannibal feasts. They were usually prisoners captured in the Rewa district, also a few white men.
A great slice of Khinjan suddenly caved in with a roar, and smoke and dust burst upward through the tumbling crust. There was a pause after that, as if the waiting elements were gathering strength. For ten minutes they watched and scarcely breathed. Rewa Gunga gained the summit and, dismounting, stood by King with the reins over his arm. The mare was too blown to do anything but stand and tremble.
And what kind of man must Rewa Gunga be who could lightly let go all the prejudices of the East and submit to what only the West has endured hitherto with any complacency a "tertium quid"? Why should he not be? Were they not alike as cousins? And the East does not love its contrary, but its complement, being older in love than the West, and wiser in its ways in all but the material.
Rewa Gunga opened a jeweled cigarette case. "Will you have one?" he asked with the air of royalty entertaining a blood-equal. King accepted a cigarette for politeness' sake and took occasion to admire the man's slender wrist, that was doubtless hard and strong as woven steel, but was not much more than half the thickness of his own. The Rajputs as a race are proud of their wrists and hands.
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