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None of us were familiar with the dead man's appearance, and Gholam Singh, and some of the other native officers, must have arranged that he should take his place. If this has been the case I shall, of course, be obliged to speak sharply to the risaldar major; but in reality I shall not be very angry with him, for he will certainly have done young Bullen a good turn."
And when our time comes may thou and I, sahib, die as he did, with our harness on! What said thy orders, sahib? Haste? Then yonder lies the road, through the archway!" "But, tell me, Risaldar, what brought you here in such a hurry?" "A poor old screw, sahib, whose time was come even as thou hast said!" "Mahommed Khan, I'm sorry very sorry, if I insulted you! I I'm worried I didn't stop to think.
There was a thud behind him in the doorway. Ruth Bellairs had fainted, and lay as the ayah had lain when Risaldar had not yet locked her in the room. He raised the lamp and studied her in silence for a minute, looking from her to the bound priest and back to her again. "Now praised be Allah!" he remarked aloud, with a world of genuine relief in his voice.
He waved Bellairs away with a motion of his hand and the lieutenant went back to his wife again. "He sent me away just like that, too!" she told him. "He said he had no time left to talk to women!" Colonel Carter bent down again above the Risaldar, and listened to as much as he had time to tell of what had happened. "But couldn't you have ridden round them, Risaldar?" he asked them. "Nay, sahib!
Delhi was the goal; and from north and south and east and west the men who could march marched, and those who could not entrenched themselves, and made ready to die in the last ditch. Some of the natives were loyal still. There were men like Risaldar Mahommed Khan, who would have died ten deaths ten times over rather than be false in one particular to the British Government.
"You could do no good, even if you did ride on," said the colonel, not unkindly. "I'm thinking, sir, that Mahommed Khan " "Risaldar Mahommed Khan?" "Yes, sir." "Of the Rajput Horse?" "Yes, sir. My father's Risaldar." "You left your wife in his charge, didn't you?"
"Aye," answered the half-brother, stolidly, holding Ruth as though she had been a little bag of rice. Again the Risaldar turned to the High Priest, and eyed him through eyes that glittered. "We are ready!" he growled. "Lead on to thy hiding-place!" The guns rode first from Doonha, for the guns take precedence.
Alwa considered that his inviolable hospitality should be too well known and understood to call for any explanation or expression; he would have considered it an insult to the Sikh's intelligence to have mouthed a welcome; he let it go for granted. "Jaidev Singh galloper to Byng-bahadur. I bring a letter for the Risaldar Mahommed Gunga, or for Cunnigan-sahib, whichever I can find first."
My servants were dispersed, and the risaldar of the horsemen, a European, seized me and thrust me into this house, abandoned like all the rest, for the people fled before his approach, fearing he would burn and destroy. Then I was tied up as you saw, until I confessed where my valuables were hidden; one of my servants must have betrayed me.
Six-and-twenty horsemen, riding full-tilt at a thousand men, may look like a trifle, but they are disconcerting. What they hit, they kill; and if they succeed in striking home, they play old Harry with formations. And Risaldar Mahommed Khan did strike home.
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