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Updated: June 9, 2025
We have to wait till the river goes down, worse luck. 'I hear, returned a dry whisper. 'Wait till the river goes down. I thought we should reach camp before the dawn. Polly knows. She'll meet me. One of the litter-men stared across the river and caught a faint twinkle of light on the far side. He whispered to Tallantire, 'There are his camp-fires, and his wife.
The eyes behind the gold spectacles sought the floor. Khoda Dad Khan chuckled, and swung out to find Tallantire hard by. 'Here, said he roughly, thrusting the coins before him, 'touch and remit. That answers for MY good behaviour. But, O Sahib, has the Government gone mad to send a black Bengali dog to us? And am I to pay service to such an one? And are you to work under him?
'That's better, said Orde faintly. 'Sorry to be a nuisance, but is is there anything to drink? They gave him milk and whisky, and Tallantire felt a little warmth against his own breast. Orde began to mutter. 'It isn't that I mind dying, he said. 'It's leaving Polly and the district. Thank God! we have no children. Dick, you know, I'm dipped awfully dipped debts in my first five years' service.
They will feed after the moon goes down in the four border villages issuing from the Jagai pass on the next night. Then in English round hand 'Your sincere friend. 'Good man! said Tallantire. 'That's Khoda Dad Khan's work, I know. It's the only piece of English he could ever keep in his head, and he is immensely proud of it.
It isn't much of a pension, but enough for her. She has her mother at home. Getting there is the difficulty. And and you see, not being a soldier's wife 'We'll arrange the passage home, of course, said Tallantire quietly. 'It's not nice to think of sending round the hat; but, good Lord! how many men I lie here and remember that had to do it! Morten's dead he was of my year.
And you must not sack any caravans, and must leave your arms at the police-post when you come in; as has been your custom, and my order. And Tallantire Sahib will be with you, but I do not know who takes my place. I speak now true talk, for I am as it were already dead, my children, for though ye be strong men, ye are children.
Khoda Dad Khan, seeing this, stripped off his own heavy-wadded sheepskin coat and added it to the pile. 'I shall be warm by the fire presently, said he. Tallantire took the wasted body of his chief into his arms and held it against his breast. Perhaps if they kept him very warm Orde might live to see his wife once more. If only blind Providence would send a three-foot fall in the river!
Then Khoda Dad Khan would swagger back to his hold, vowing that Orde Sahib was one prince and Tallantire Sahib another, and that whosoever went a-raiding into British territory would be flayed alive. On this occasion he found the Deputy Commissioner's tents looking much as usual.
What does it mean? 'It is an order, said Tallantire. He had expected something of this kind. 'He is a very clever S-sahib. 'He a Sahib! He's a kala admi a black man unfit to run at the tail of a potter's donkey. All the peoples of the earth have harried Bengal. It is written. Thou knowest when we of the North wanted women or plunder whither went we? To Bengal where else?
'And thou art our father and our mother, broke in Khoda Dad Khan with an oath. 'What shall we do, now there is no one to speak for us, or to teach us to go wisely! 'There remains Tallantire Sahib. Go to him; he knows your talk and your heart. Keep the young men quiet, listen to the old men, and obey. Khoda Dad Khan, take my ring. The watch and chain go to thy brother.
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