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Updated: May 1, 2025
It was amazing how easy everything became. Mr. Ledgard's servants collected Jan's cabin baggage and took it with them in the tender and, on arrival, in a tikka-gharri the little pony-carriage which is the gondola of Bombay and almost before she quite realised that the voyage was over she found herself seated beside Peter in a comfortable motor-car, with a cheerful little Hindu chauffeur at the steering-wheel, sliding through wide, well-watered streets, still comparatively empty because it was so early.
In a second the whole squadron was by the ears, and the stable-helper was the center of an interest he had not bargained for. "Nay, sahibs, I but followed him, and how should I know? Nay, then I did not follow him! It so happened. I took that road, and he stepped out of a tikka-gharri at her door. Am I blind? Do I not know her door? Does not everybody know it?
"Not there? Not where? Not in his quarters? Then go and find him. Ask where he is. Hurry!" So, since the regiment was keyed to watchfulness, it took about five minutes more before it was known that Ranjoor Singh was not in barracks. The servant returned to report that he had been seen driving toward the bazaar in a tikka-gharri.
And then, very slowly and solemnly, but quite as loudly as before, came "When I am dying, lean over me tenderly " Jan got up and stamped. Then she went swiftly for her topee and gloves and parasol, and fled from the bungalow. Lalkhan rushed after her to ask if she wanted a "tikka-gharri." He strongly disapproved of her walking in the streets alone, but Jan shook her head.
He had added two more names to his collection since he came to Bombay. "Mahaluxmi," the road running beside the sea, where Peter sometimes took them and Auntie Jan for a drive after tea when it was high tide; and "Taraporevala," who owned a famous book-shop in Medow Street where he had once been in a tikka-gharri with Auntie Jan to get some books for Mummy.
Fifteen minutes after he had left his quarters, no longer in khaki uniform, but dressed as a Sikh gentleman, the whole squadron knew the color of his undershirt, also that he had hired a tikka-gharri, and that his only weapon was the ornamental dagger that a true Sikh wears twisted in his hair.
"Also go call me a tikka-gharri and select a very senior horse, blind, angular, withered, wilted, and answering to the name, most obviously, of Skin-and-Grief lest I be taken by the Grizzly-Goslings for a down-trodden plutocrat and a brother and not seen for the fierce and 'aughty oppressor that I am." Public conveyance. "Sahib?" "Tikka-gharri lao, you lazy little 'ound!
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