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Updated: May 11, 2025
Rustum Khan cursed with keen attention to detail at sight of him. The man who had entered with him became busy in the shadows trying to find room to stall their horses, but Von Quedlinburg gave his reins to an attendant, and stood alone, akimbo, with the firelight displaying him in half relief.
Rustum Khan heard what he said, and made noise enough drawing his saber to be heard outside the kahveh, but Kagig did not turn his head. Three gipsies attended to Rustum Khan, slipping between him and their master, and our four Zeitoonli servants cautiously approached the Rajput from behind. "Peace!" ordered Monty. "Continue, Kagig."
He'll be offering to fight Kagig next! Guess what is Kagig's hold over the girl can you?" But a much greater miracle followed. Rather than disobey Monty again; rather than seem to question his authority, or differ from his judgment in the least, Rustum Khan forebore presently from sending for his own stripling servant and actually accepted food from Maga's hands.
It was a case of height despising deep in either instance, she as sure of her superiority as he of his. There might have been immediate trouble if Monty had not taken his new, restless, fresh horse by the mane and swung into the saddle. "Forward, Rustum Khan!" be ordered. "Ride ahead and let those keen eyes of yours keep us out of traps!"
At the signal we dose the road at both ends; Rustum Khan and Fred from the bottom end, and we at the top." "Most of the murder," Fred explained cheerfully, "will be done by the women hidden in the trees on either flank. As long as they don't shoot across the road and kill one another it'll be a picnic!" "How do you know the Turks will walk into the trap?" I asked.
Kagig ordered one of the owner's sons to sweep a place near the fire, and there he superintended the spreading of Monty's blankets, close enough to his own assorted heap for conversation without mutual offense. Will cleaned for himself a section of the opposite end of the platform, and Fred and I spread our blankets next to his. That left Rustum Khan in a quandary.
Quick was his disillusionment. "Listen, Kulun," she cried. "I am Norhala daughter of another Norhala and of Rustum, whom Cherkis tortured and slew. Now go, you lying spawn of unclean toads go and tell your father that I, Norhala, am at his gates. And bring back with you the maid and the man. Go, I say!" There was stark amazement on Kulun's face; and fear now enough.
His own baggage was packed on two mules in charge of an Armenian boy, who was more afraid of our Turks than they of robbers. Yet, when we demanded of our muleteers what sort of men, and of what nation the dreaded highwaymen might be they pointed at Rustum Khan's lean servant.
At a little after eight o'clock Mahmoud resumed the offensive with his artillery, and a messenger that Monty sent down to watch returned and reported the shells all bursting wild, with Rustum Khan's men taking careful cover in the ditches they had zigzagged down the whole face of the ramp.
Monty nodded, smiling gravely. There was a fire at the back of Monty's eyes and something in his bearing I had never seen before. "Then I go with my colonel sahib!" announced Rustum Khan. "That gipsy woman will kill him otherwise!" "Better help hunt for the lady, Rustum Khan." "Nay, colonel sahib bahadur thy blood on my head! I go with thee into hell and out beyond if need be!"
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