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Updated: June 2, 2025
The Rajput spoke with a strangely constrained voice all of a sudden, but the Commissioner did not notice it; he was too busy pulling on a wool-lined jacket to ward off the evening chill. "Well, risaldar what then?" "I think that I could teach the son of Cunnigan-bahadur to be worth his salt." "If you'll teach him to be properly respectful to his betters I'll be grateful to you, Mahommed Gunga."
It was a hard time for Lisle for the next week or two, for everything reminded him of his father. The risaldar major and the other native officers, with all of whom he was familiar, grasped him by the hand when they met, in token of their sympathy; and the sepoys stood at attention, with mournful faces, when he passed them.
In went the spur, and the snorting, rattling, clanking cavalcade sidled and pranced out of the temple into the sunshine, with Ruth and Suliman in the midst of them. "Gallop!" roared the Risaldar, the moment that the last horse was clear of the temple-doors. And in that instant he saw what the High Priest's whispering had meant.
Hasamurti you and the others make ready for the street!" That was a simple matter. In three minutes all five women were back in the room, veiled from head to foot. But the hammering at the front door was repeated, louder than before. Tess wondered whether to hope that the risaldar of the guard had already reported to Gungadhura the lady doctor's visit, or to hope that he had not.
Maybe it's all right and honorable according to your ideas; but, if you did it, I would never be able to look my husband in the face again! No, Risaldar! Let this priest go, or leave him here I don't care which, but don't harm him! I am quite ready to ride with you, now, if you like. I suppose you have horses? But I would rather die than think that a man was put to the torture to save me!
He is very anxious to accompany the regiment and, as he understands his work, the risaldar has consented to let him go, instead of remaining behind at the depot. "He is, of course, much affected by the loss of his cousin; and hopes that he will not be worried by questions.
Kirby dived through his door, while Warrington went behind the shay to have a good look for causes. He could find none, although a black leather apron, usually rolled up behind in order to be strapped over baggage when required, was missing. "Didn't see who took that apron, did you?" he asked the risaldar; but the risaldar had not known that it was gone.
The Risaldar leaped from his horse and tossed his reins to the man behind him. In a second his sword was at the High Priest's throat. "Where is that secret stair?" he growled. "Lead on!" The swordpoint pricked him. Two priests tried to interfere, but wilted and collapsed with fright as four fierce, black-bearded Rajputs spurred their horses forward. The swordpoint pricked still deeper.
And at the foot of the dark a voice that Warrington recognized shed new interest but no light on the mystery. "Salaam, sahibs," said a fat babu, backing through a door in front of them and showing himself silhouetted against the lesser outer darkness. "Seeing regimental risaldar on the box seat, I took liberty.
You would be detected at the first halt. Besides, how could the son of our dear captain go as a private?" "I do not object to go as a private, risaldar. Of course I should stain myself and, in uniform, it is not likely that any of the white officers would notice a strange face." "But you would have to eat with the others, to mix with them as one of themselves, to suffer all sorts of hardships."
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