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Updated: April 30, 2025
'A certain astrologer of that city whose name I have forgotten 'That is no more than the city of Umballa where we slept last night, Kim whispered to the priest. 'Ay, Umballa was it? He cast a horoscope and declared that my chela should find his desire within two days. But what said he of the meaning of the stars, Friend of all the World?
I put my hand upon my amulet, which lies always next to my skin, and, remembering the pedigree of a white stallion that I had bitten out of a piece of Mussalmani bread, I went away to Umballa perceiving that a heavy trust was laid upon me. At that hour, had I chosen, thy head was forfeit. It needed only to say to that man, "I have here a paper concerning a horse which I cannot read."
Listen. Pundita, you shall return to the city. Two men will accompany you to the gate. You will enter alone in the early morning." Pundita drew close to her husband. "You will seek Umballa and play traitor. You will pretend to betray me." "No, no, Mem-sahib!" "Listen. You will demand to see him alone. You will say that you are jealous of me.
Mahbub puffed his hookah in silence. Then he began, almost whispering: 'Umballa is on the road to Benares if indeed ye two go there. 'Tck! Tck! I tell thee he does not know how to lie as we two know. 'And if thou wilt carry a message for me as far as Umballa, I will give thee money.
A lion's net is a heavy affair, but with the aid of the keepers the men ran as quickly and lightly as if burdenless. Smoke. There was a fire. The hearts of the white men beat painfully. And the same thought occurred to both of them; they should have gone to Ramabai's house first, then turned their attention to the lions. And Umballa was hiding in a house near by!
"But it lulls Umballa; and lulled, he becomes careless. Beyond the north gate there are ever ready men and elephants. And when the moment arrives, thither we shall fly, all of us. But," mysteriously, "we may not have to fly. When Umballa learns that the Colonel Sahib will refuse to sign the necessary treasury release the soldiers will understand that once again they have been trifled with."
Then Umballa should pay his debt. They found the poor king in the hut, in a pitiable condition. He laughed and babbled and smiled and wept as they led him away. But in the secret chamber which was to have held Umballa there was no living thing.
There were trellises of flowers, too. Persian roses, despite the fact that it was still winter. It was called the garden of brides. Kathlyn, attended by Pundita, awaited there the coming of Umballa and the council. Her heart ached with bitterness and she could not think clearly. The impression that all this was some dreadful nightmare recurred to her vividly.
We came to Umballa in the hot misty dawn, four or five men, who had been working hard fox eleven months, shouting for our dales the two-horse travelling carriages that were to take us up to Kalka at the foot of the Hills. It was all new to Garm. He did not understand carriages where you lay at full length on your bedding, but Vixen knew and hopped into her place at once; Garin following.
Ramabai had accomplished by diplomacy what yonder Durga Ram had failed to do by force. But Umballa secretly smiled as he sensed this undercurrent. Presently they should see. The colonel extended his hand and drew Kathlyn up beside him; and now for a moment the whole affair trembled in the balance: Kathlyn felt herself possessed with a wild desire to laugh.
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