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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Tiger not coming to-night," he explained to the astonished Burman, who rejoined: "Tiger coming soon, soon, now; after the waning of the moon." "Oh well, never mind," said Shafto impatiently, "you take away the goat. Look sharp take him quickly, quickly and keep him." This was an extraordinary thakin, who, at the very climax of the tiger hour, climbed out of the machan and liberated the bait!
"Put that down," said Hartley. Mhtoon Pah's very agony of desire to find the boy was almost disgusting, and he turned away from the sight. "There is no use your staying here, and no use your coming, unless there is more of this devil's work," he pointed to the blood-stained cloth. "Leave the thing here, and I will see what the doctors have to say about it." "Thakin, Thakin," said Mhtoon Pah.
If you go to the rest-houses by the monastery, where the monks recite the law on Sundays, you will find that the congregations are nearly all women. If you visit the monastery without the gate, you will see many visitors bringing little presents, and they will be women. 'Thakin, many men do not care for religion at all, but when a man does do so, he takes it very seriously.
Hartley wished that he had not; he frequently wished that he had never seen that man. Mhtoon Pah bent near the Head of the Police and spoke in low, sibilant tones: "He is a butcher's mate, Thakin. He is a slayer of flesh. He kills in the shambles. Oh, it is true. I saw him slit the mouth of a dog with his knife for his own mirth " "Swine!" said Hartley.
"Well for thee, Leh Shin, that I have a friend in the house of that Thakin who rules the Police. But for him I should not have been informed of the plot against thy life, for, 'on this evidence, saith he, 'assuredly they will hang the Chinaman, and Mhtoon Pah is witness against him." "Mhtoon Pah, Mhtoon Pah!" said Leh Shin, and he needed to add no curses to the name, spoken as he said it.
"Then keep the information to yourself, unless you can prove it," said Hartley, firmly. "I want to hear nothing about it." He got up and looked around the shop. "I suppose you haven't got the lacquer bowl since?" "No, Thakin, I have not got it, neither have I seen Leh Shin, an evil man. The Lady Sahib will have to wait; neither has she been here since, nor asked for the bowl."
For every little quarrel a woman will want a divorce. 'Thakin, if we were to grant divorces every time a woman came and demanded it, we should be doing nothing else all day long. If a husband comes home to find dinner not cooked, and speaks angrily, his wife will rush to us in tears for a divorce.
Gold lacquer bowls were difficult to procure, and he had charged the boy to search for it in the morning and to buy it, if possible, from the opium dealer Leh Shin, who could be securely trusted to be half-drugged at an early hour. "It was the morning I spoke of, Thakin," said the curio dealer, who had grown calmer. "But Absalom did not return to his home that night.
Houses there, Thakin, that crawl with yellow men, who are devils, and who split a man as they would split a fowl " he broke off, and waved his hands about wildly. Hartley felt a little sick; there was something so hideous in the way Mhtoon Pah expressed himself that he recoiled a step and summoned his common sense to his aid. "Who saw Absalom last?" "Many people must have seen him.
Of course, in your own country you do what you like, but in the prince's country no one is allowed to drink or to smoke opium. It is against our faith. That is what the prince wanted to say. The thakin will not be offended if he is asked that here in our country he will not tempt any of us to break our religion. I almost wished I had not encouraged the prince to speak.
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