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She's not actually his queen, but some sort of a heritage from the Rutton dynasty I hardly know what or why. Salig never married her, but she lives in the Palace, and for several years ever since she first began to be talked about she's ruled from behind the screen with a high hand and an out-stretched arm. So the bazaar says." "I've heard she was beautiful," Farrell observed.
What the Maharana's next move would be he had not the least suspicion; but since he must be content and abide the developments as they came, he was minded to amuse himself. He moved away from the cistern, idling down a path in a direction opposite that taken by Salig Singh. An abrupt turn brought him to the outer wall, and he stopped to gaze, leaning upon the low marble balustrade.
"You mean they've been cut?" "Something of the sort." "And that means " "That this infernal conspiracy is scheduled to come to a head to-night as you must have inferred, my dear fellow: this is the last night of your probation. The cutting off of Khandawar from all British India is a bold move and shows Salig Singh's confidence. It means simply: 'Governmental interference not desired.
"If he doth fail to survive the Ordeal Har Dyal Rutton hath died. If he doth survive " "Har Dyal Rutton shall die within the hour," Salig Singh concluded grimly. "But ... I am troubled. I cannot but ask myself continually: Were it not wiser to confess failure and abide the outcome?"
"Gone to the palace to threaten Salig Singh with an army corps." "You know the telegraph wires are cut?" "Yes, but how " "Never mind how I know the story's too long. The thing to do is to get troops here without a day's delay." "But how?" "Take Raikes, Clarkson, and Doggott and ride like hell to Badshah Junction. Telegraph from there. The four of you ought to be able to fight your way through."
But for the present, no pledge of any sort had been exacted of him. "So be it," he assented on impulse. "I follow." With no other word Salig Singh turned and strode down the corridor. The passageway was long and dark and given to sudden curves and angles, penetrating, it seemed, the very bowels of the Raj Mahal.
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.
"One word more," Salig Singh interposed, very much alive to Amber's attitude: "I were unfaithful to the trust thou didst once repose in me were I not to warn thee that whither thou goest, the Mind will know; what thou dost, the Eye will see; the words thou shalt utter, the Ear will hear. To all things there is an end, also even to the patience of the Body. Shabash!"
By way of reply Salig Singh lifted his sword in its scabbard from its fastenings at his side and, with a magnificent gesture, cast it clanking to the floor between them. A heavy English army-pattern revolver followed it. The Rajput spread out his hands. "Thou art armed, my lord," he said, "I, at thy mercy.
She's disappeared, vanished, been spirited away! Don't you understand me? She's been kidnapped!" In dumb torment, Amber heard a swift, sharp hiss of breath as pregnant with meaning as a spoken word, and turned to meet Labertouche's eyes, and to see that the same thought was in both their minds. Salig Singh had found the way to lure Amber to Kathiapur.
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