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"When he had finished telling me all this, he restored to me my ring, which he said he snatched from my finger, as soon as I was seized, that I might not be robbed of it by the governor, or some of the soldiers. "The grateful Saheb now struck off my chains; and my own anxiety for my escape was scarcely equal to his.
And the Jam Saheb long turned his face from him and would not look upon him nor give him his blessing and only relented when my father took to himself another wife, my mother, the lady of noble birth whom the Jam Saheb had desired for him and sojourned for a season at Mekran Kot.
Tippoo, enraged at this, despatched immediate orders to four of his soldiers to go in search of me, seize, imprison, and torture me, till I should confess where these diamonds were concealed. Saheb was in the sultan's apartment when this order was given, and immediately hastened to Prince Abdul Calie, whom he knew to be my friend, and informed him of what had happened.
And being arrived, in due course, at Kot Ghazi, before entering the bungalow belonging to the Jam Saheb, he knelt his camel at the door of the shop of a European hakim in English a er " Turban. "Chemist, Mir Saheb," I suggested.
I knew him to be my enemy: but what was my astonishment when I recollected in the countenance of the Hindoo, who was fastening my chains and loading me with curses, that very Saheb, whose life I had formerly saved! To all my questions no answer was given, but, 'It is the will of the sultan; or, 'Thus the sultan avenges himself upon traitors.
Alas! before the mem saheb has been many weeks in the house, the change of air begins to disagree with him not with his body, but with his spirit, and though he may bear up against it for a time, he sooner or later asks leave to go to his country.
"Nay, Mir Saheb," I replied, "nor would I till your tale be done and I have seen the return of another reconnoitring-patrol. We might then take turns.... Nay, I will not sleep at all. 'Tis too near dawn when things are wont to happen in time of war." Little did the worthy Subedar-Major guess how, or why, his tale enthralled me.
That Indian Ministers now shared in the responsibility of government, and that there was a popular assembly to undertake legislation for composing the differences between the conflicting sections of the Sikh community, helped at least as much to avert still graver troubles as the object-lesson which the Nankhanda Saheb tragedy afforded to thoughtful Punjabees of all creeds.
And to her incitements and his own inclination and desires was added that which made revenge and my brother's death the chiefest things in all the world to Ibrahim Mahmud, and it happened thus.... But do I weary the Sahib with my babble?" Europe. "Nay nay far from it, Mir Saheb," replied I. "The sentry of talk challenges the approaching skirmishers of sleep.
While pouring out the water into the wooden bowls, with which every beggar is provided, they exclaim "Sebyl Allah, ya atshan, Sebyl!" "hasten, O thirsty, to the ways of God!" and then break out in the following short song of three notes only, which I never heard without emotion. Ed-djene wa el moy fezata ly Saheb es-sabyl "Paradise and forgiveness be the lot of him who gave you this water!"
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