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That, too, was spoken in a level voice, but Mahommed Gunga's eyes and the other man's met once again above his head. "We will stay here four days; by the third day there will be time enough to have brought an elephant and " "I will go on foot," said Cunningham, quite quietly. "Tomorrow, at dawn, risaldar-sahib. Will you be good enough to make arrangements?
Mahommed Gunga sneered after him, and spat, and turned his back on the sunshine and the street. "I had a mind to teach that Hindoo who his betters are!" he growled. "Come in, risaldar-sahib!" said a voice persuasively. "By your own showing the hour is not yet why spill blood before the hour?"
Again Mahommed Gunga bowed, without a smile or a tremor on his face; again a growled order was echoed and re-echoed through the dark. The drumming stopped. "Is there oil in the bahadur's lamp?" asked Mahommed Gunga. "Probably not," said Cunningham. "I will command that " "You needn't trouble, thank you, risaldar-sahib. I sleep better in the dark.
Ali Partab began to drum his fingers on his teeth and to exhibit less impatience to be off. "There is no knowing, sahib. I, too, am no advocate of superstitious practices involving cruelty. I might get a letter through. My commission from the risaldar-sahib would include all honorable matters not obstructive to the main issue. I have certain funds " "I, too, have funds," smiled the missionary.
And he kept on repeating that assurance to himself, with the air of a man who would like to be assured, but is not, while he ostentatiously found fault with every single thing on which his eyes lit. "One would think that the Risaldar-sahib were afraid of consequences!" whispered the youngest of his followers, stung to the quick by a quite unmerited rebuke.
"Ho!" laughed Mahommed Gunga later, as he sluiced out the cut while his own adherents stood near by and chaffed him. "The cub cuts his teeth, then! Soon it will be time to try his pluck." "Be gentle with him, risaldar-sahib; a good cub dies as easily as a poor one, until he knows the way." "Leave him to me! I will show him the way, and we will see what we will see.
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