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I can see them. For the pity of God come over to me, Hafiz Ullah! My father slew ten of them. Come over! Hafiz Ullah answered in a very loud voice, 'Mine was guiltless. Hear, ye Men of the Night, neither my father nor my blood had any part in that sin. Bear thou thy own punishment, Shahbaz Khan.
Not one of them but had suffered at the hands of Mahmud Shahbaz, his father, the Vizier, or at the insolent hands of this his own son.... Then Mir Jan called to Moussa Isa, his body-servant, and said unto him: "'Hear, Moussa Isa, and make no tiny error if thou wouldst see to-morrow's sun and go to Paradise anon.
'Shahbaz Khan, I am alone also; but I dare not leave my post! 'That is a lie; thou art afraid. A longer pause followed, and then: 'I am afraid. Be silent! They are below us still. Pray to God and sleep. The troopers listened and wondered, for they could not understand what save earth and stone could lie below the watch-towers. Shahbaz Khan began to call again: 'They are below us.
They heard the shutter of the watch-tower below them thrown back with a clang, and the voice of the watcher calling, "Oh, Hafiz Ullah!" The echoes took up the call, "La-la-la!" and an answer came from the watch-tower hidden round the curve of the hill, "What is it, Shahbaz Khan?" Shahbaz Khan replied in the high-pitched voice of the mountaineer: "Hast thou seen?" The answer came back: "Yes.
The troopers listened and wondered, for they could not understand what save earth and stone could lie below the watch-towers. Shahbaz Khan began to call again: "They are below us. I can see them! For the pity of God come over to me, Hafiz Ullah! My father slew ten of them. Come over!" Hafiz Ullah answered in a very loud voice, "Mine was guiltless.
It was during this visit to Mekran Kot that Mahmud Shahbaz, the Vizier, announced that he was about to send his learned son, the dog Ibrahim, to Englistan to become English-made first-class Pleader what they called 'Barishtar-at-Lar' is it not, Sahib?" An insulting and contemptuous gesture. A class of negroes, much employed as sailors and boatmen, and called Seedeeboys.
The echoes took up the call, 'La-la-la! And an answer came from the watch-tower hidden round the curve of the hill, 'What is it, Shahbaz Khan? Shahbaz Khan replied in the high-pitched voice of the mountaineer: 'Hast thou seen? The answer came back: 'Yes. God deliver us from all evil spirits! There was a pause, and then: 'Hafiz Ullah, I am alone! Come to me!
"Now the son of the Vizier, Mahmud Shahbaz, was Ibrahim and a mean mangy pariah cur this Ibrahim Mahmud was, having been educated, and he hated my brother bitterly by reason of the sertifcut and on account of a matter concerning a dancing-girl, one of those beautiful fat Mekranis, and, by reason of his hatred and envy and jealousy, my mother made common cause with him, she also desiring my brother's death, in that her husband loved this child of another woman, an alien, his first love, better than he loved hers.
God deliver us from all evil spirits! There was a pause, and then: "Hafiz Ullah, I am alone! Come to me." "Shahbaz Khan, I am alone also; but I dare not leave my post!" "That is a lie; thou art afraid." A longer pause followed, and then: "I am afraid. Be silent! They are below us still. Pray to God and sleep."
The Kohistanees despitefully used Shahbaz Khan, and when a brother of Yakoub Khan was sent to use his influence in favour of the worried and threatened governor, he was reviled as a 'Kafir' and a 'Feringhee, and ordered peremptorily back to Sherpur if he had any regard for his life.
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