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Updated: June 23, 2025
There is what is left of her, and most of her cargo of salt, in jute bags." As he spoke, a series of green flashes played upon the bags, and Seaton yelled in relief. "They got the ship all right, but Dunark and Sitar got away they're still with their salt!"
So she took her sitar and sat in the windowseat and sang a song of old days that had been sung by a girl of her profession in an armed camp on the eve of a great battle the day before the Fords of the Jumna ran red and Sivaji fled fifty miles to Delhi with a Toorkh stallion at his horse's tail and another Lalun on his saddle-bow.
"Say, Dick," called Dorothy, from her seat near the wall. "If we're going down to the ground, how about Sitar?" "By lying down and not doing anything, and by staying in the vessel, where it is warm, she will be all right for the short time we must stay here," Dunark answered for his wife. "I will help all I can, but I do not know how much that will be." "It isn't so bad lying down." Sitar agreed.
Her dancing was a floaty rhythm, an undulating drifting to the soft call of the sitar; and her voice, when she sang the ghazal, the love-song, was soft, holding the compelling power of subdued passion it thrilled Barlow with an emotion that, when she had finished, caused him to take himself to task.
'Thanks to your Government, all our heads are protected, and with the educational facilities at my command' his eyes twinkled wickedly 'I might be a distinguished member of the local administration. Perhaps, in time, I might even be a member of a Legislative Council. 'Don't speak English, said Lalun, bending over her sitar afresh.
The voices of early evening had settled down to one soothing hum whose deepest note was the steady chumping of the bullocks above their chopped straw, and whose highest was the tinkle of a Bengali dancing-girl's sitar. Most men had eaten and pulled deep at their gurgling, grunting hookahs, which in full blast sound like bull-frogs. At last the lama returned.
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