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Updated: June 20, 2025
It must have been a great fire when at full height. Men had seen it at Donga Pa across the valley winking and blazing through the night, and said that the charcoal-burners of Kodru were getting drunk. But it was only Suket Singh, Sepoy of the load Punjab Native Infantry, and Athira, a woman, burning burning burning. This was how things befell; and the Policeman's Diary will bear me out.
So Madu gave up all his worldly wealth, amounting to twenty-seven rupees, eight annas, three pice, and a silver chain, to the Council of Kodru. And it fell as Juseen Daze foretold. They sent Athira's brother down into Suket Singh's regiment to call Athira home. Suket Singh kicked him once round the Lines, and then handed him over to the Havildar, who beat him with a belt.
'I will come back, said Athira. 'Say rather that WE will come back, said Suket Singh. 'Ai; but when? said Athira's brother. 'Upon a day very early in the morning, said Suket Singh; and he tramped off to apply to the Colonel Sahib Bahadur for one week's leave. 'I am withering away like a barked tree in the spring, moaned Athira.
'He'll kill me dead, said Athira to Suket Singh. 'You must take me away. 'There'll be a trouble in the Lines. My wife will pull out my beard; but never mind, said Suket Singh, 'I will take you. There was loud trouble in the Lines, and Suket Singh's beard was pulled, and Suket Singh's wife went to live with her mother and took away the children.
The little flames began to peer up between the big logs atop of the brushwood. 'The Government should teach us to pull the triggers with our toes, said Suket Singh grimly to the moon. That was the last public observation of Sepoy Suket Singh. Upon a day, early in the morning, Madu came to the pyre and shrieked very grievously, and ran away to catch the Policeman who was on tour in the district.
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