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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I should not be comfortable if I were not with you, sahib." "Well, Abdool, we are going with the Bombay regiment which starts tomorrow, and shall travel through Central India to Surat. There I shall leave them in the Concan, and cross the Ghauts to Jooneer, and pay a visit to Soyera, Ramdass, and Sufder, and see them all comfortably settled; and then go down to Bombay.
"'So you are back again, Puntojee?" "Yes, and have brought Soyera down with me." "I have great news to tell you," the soldier went on. "It will not be news to me, Sufder. I know that your command has been doubled, and that you will now be the captain of two hundred men; but I can tell you much more than that.
I shall take that matter upon myself. Come, three days later, for his clothes. "Goodbye! I have other matters to see about," and, without waiting for any thanks from Soyera, he at once went into his shop, and began to talk to his assistant.
The distance from Jooneer to Bombay was but about eighty miles, and the journey was performed in five days, and Ramdass took down a light load of maize, whose sale would pay the expenses of their journey. Soyera rode and slept on the maize, except in two villages, where she was able to procure a lodging for the night.
The mission clerk had been transferred to Colonel Palmer, as his knowledge of affairs would be useful to the newcomer. Soyera was carried in a dhoolie, and followed close behind the troopers. That evening they descended the Ghauts into the Concan and encamped there and, on the following day, rode into Bombay; where Mr.
Turning to Soyera, he said: "Naturally Mrs. Sankey asked why you had not come forward before. I told her your reasons, and she thinks that, perhaps, you have acted for the best for him. At any rate, she has consented to take the boy for two years; and I am to pay her, for you, the sum that you have named." In reality, Mrs.
Her brother laughed. "It seems to me, Soyera, that you have come to prefer these English people to your own countrymen." "I say not that, Ramdass. You asked me how I liked them, and I have told you. You yourself know how the tax collectors grind down the people; how Scindia and Holkar and the Peishwa are always fighting each other.
"I shall be glad if you will dine with me, the day after tomorrow, when I shall ask the members of the Council to meet you." On leaving the Governor, Harry at once went to the shop of the Parsee merchant from whom he had obtained his regimentals, and ordered the various uniforms required for the staff. He then went to Soyera and, to his great satisfaction, found Sufder there.
He loosed his hold, and stood back and gazed at her. "Why, Soyera," he exclaimed, "is it you? It is more than ten years since I saw you! "It is my cousin," he said to some of his companions who were standing round, "my mother's sister's child." "Don't be alarmed," he went on, to the woman, "no one will harm you. I am one of the captains of this party." "I must speak to you alone, Sufder."
I shall, of course, tell them your story; and they will likely request you to go, at once, to see them; therefore, do not leave the hotel until you hear from me." Sufder had not previously visited Bombay, and the next morning early he went out, with Soyera as his guide, to inspect the European part of the town.
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