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As he swallowed the dose the phial slipped from his fingers and rang upon the hearthstone, spilling its contents in the ashes. A pungent and heady odour flavoured the air. "No matter," said Rutton indifferently. "I shan't need it again for some time." He picked up and restored the phial to his pocket. "Now let me think a bit." He took a quick turn up the room and down again.
These four held land in what was the village's name? oh, Pishapur, near Thori, in the Banalu Tehsil of Patiala State, where men can still recognise right behaviour when they see it. The two younger brothers tilled the land, while Rutton Singh and Attar Singh took service with the Regiment, according to the custom of the family. 'True, true, said the Havildar-Major.
Amber broke the seal and read the enclosures once to himself and a second time aloud to Doggott. The date was barely a year old. "For reasons personal to myself and sufficient," Rutton had written, "I choose not to make a formal will. I shall die, probably in the near future, by my own hand, of poison.
There's Canada the Hudson Bay region, Labrador...." A discreet knock sounded on the door in the partition, and it was opened gently. Doggott appeared on the threshold, pale and careworn. Rutton paused, facing him. "Well?" "Any orders, sir?" "Yes; begin packing up. We leave to-morrow." "Very good, sir." "That is all to-night." "Yes, sir. Good-night. Good-night, Mr. Amber."
I remember wakin' up and seeing Stalky asleep with his head on old Rutton Singh's chest. He slept twenty-four hours. I only slept seventeen, but then I was coming down with dysentery." "Coming down? What rot! He had it on him before we joined Stalky in the fort," said Tertius. "Well, you needn't talk! You hove your sword at Macnamara and demanded a drum-head court-martial every time you saw him.
'If I care to run risk. Veree considerate of you, I'm sure. But as we say in Bengal, 'thee favour of kings iss ass a sword of two edges. Noah, thanks; the servants of thee Bell do not linger by wayside, soa to speak. Besides, I am in great hurree. Mister Amber, good night. Rutton Sahib" with a flash of his sinister humour "au revoir; I mean to say, till we meet in thee Hall of thee Bell.
With a single thought Amber sprang upon Rutton, snatched the weapon from his nerveless fingers, and, leaping to the door, let himself out. The snow had ceased; only the wind raved with untempered force. Overhead it was blowing clear; through rifts and rents in the fast-moving cloud-rack pale turquoise patches of moonlit sky showed, here and there inlaid with a far shining star.
Amber had returned to the table. He pondered his problems for some time before answering; a distasteful duty devolved upon him of questioning the servant about his master's secrets, of delving into the mystery which Rutton had chosen always to preserve about himself which, indeed, he had chosen to die without disclosing to the man whom he had termed his sole intimate.
That makes it plain, or ought to, why Har Dyal Rutton, the last male of his line, was and is considered the natural, the inevitable, leader of the Second Mutiny. It devolved upon Salig Singh to produce him; Salig Singh promised and is on the point of failure. I can't say precisely what penalty he'll be called upon to pay, but it's safe to assume that it'll be something everlastingly unpleasant.
By brazening things out, however, there was just a chance that he might make him imagine that there was more in the matter than met the eye, and that, in some mysterious way, he had actually obtained leave to visit Rutton that day.
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