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Updated: May 27, 2025
But Utirupa not only had two magnificent ceremonies to unite in one, but Yasmini to supply the genius. Once or twice Tess remonstrated, but Yasmini turned a scornfully deaf ear. "What would you have us do instead? Invest all the money at eight per cent., so that the rich traders may have more capital, and found an asylum where Bimbu, Umra and Pinga may live in idleness and be rebuked for mirth?"
There was always the chance, besides, that somebody's horses would take fright and add excitement to the spectacle. Up in the great palace Utirupa feasted and entertained his equals all day long, and most of the night. There was horse-racing that brought the crowd out in its thousands, and a certain amount of tent-pegging and polo, but most of the royal gala-making was hidden from public view.
But if Gungadhura found it in the hills, and kept quiet about it as he doubtless would, he'd have every sedition-monger in India in his pay within a year, and the consequences might be very serious." "Who is the other man the one the British didn't choose?" asked Tess. "A very decent chap named Utirupa quite a sportsman.
It was the one chance that part of Rajputana had to get together, and the Rajputs swarmed to the tournament along the main trunk road that the English had reconstructed in early days for the swifter movement of their guns. Yasmini saw Utirupa every night, she apparently as much a man as he in turban and the comfortable Rajput costume shorter by a bead, but as straight-standing and as agile.
As your first official act there's no time like the present we want you to exchange the River Palace, on this side of the river, for out fort on your side." Utirupa said never a word. "It's not a question of driving a bargain," Samson went on. "We don't know what the palace may be worth, or what is in it.
So word of her life among the women did not travel swiftly to official ears, as that of a male intriguer would certainly have done. Utirupa was busy all day long with polo, and the Powers that Be were sure of it, and pleased. What Gungadhura knew, or guessed, was another matter; but Gungadhura had his own hands full just then.
Next after Utirupa the princes rode in proper order of rank and precedence, each with two attendants up behind him waving fans of ostrich plumes. Then came a band. Then Samson, and a score of British officers in carriages whose teams were nearly frantic from the din and the smell of elephants and had to have runners to hold their heads all of which added exquisite amusement.
In and out and around and through the ancient city the procession filed, passing now and then through streets so narrow that people could have struck Utirupa through the upper story windows; but all they threw at him was flowers, calling him "Bahadur" and king of elephants, and great prince, and dozens of other names that never hurt anybody with a sense of pageantry and humor.
As if in confirmation of Samson's words the Rajput team seemed rather to go to pieces in the third chukker. There was the same brilliant individual hitting, and as much speed as ever, but the genius was not there. In vain Utirupa took the ball out of a scrimmage twice and rode away with it. He was not backed up in the nick of time, and before the end of the third minute the English scored.
He noticed a change in her voice symptoms of new interest, and passed it to the credit of himself. "There's an intrigue going on, and you can help me. Sp people whose business it is to keep me informed have reported that Tom Tripe is constantly carrying letters from the Princess Yasmini of Sialpore to that young Prince Utirupa who was here this afternoon. "You mean the British would depose him?"
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