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Would you leave my children fatherless? . . . There is none other " They stood in the lifting day overlooking a broad sloping country the Vindha peaks faintly outlined in the far distance. "It is the broad valley of Nerbudda," Chakkra said, "full of milk and wine against the seasons.
It was Nut Kut, the great black elephant not long down from his own wilds among the Vindha Hills, who left his station first and moved on out into the night. Gunpat Rao followed him. . . . One by one they filed away. Indeed, there was not one shrub left to bar their path. But in this falling of calamity upon their so successful foolish plan, the mahouts were stricken desperate.
But I say, Gunpat Rao came from the Vindhas, you know." It dawned upon Skag that this wasn't monologue, but conversation; also that it had some vague bearing upon his own affairs. The pause was very slight, when the Deputy resumed: "Yes, Gunpat Rao is from the Vindha Hills, within the life-time of one man. . . . Mitha Baba is as fast, but she won't do it; so there's an end.
Even then he belonged to one of the little brotherhoods of the Vindhas lesser, you know, in relation to the great brotherhoods of the Himalayas. In fact it is from the Vindha Hills that they move on when they are called up the great way and beyond " Another of Carlin's themes always the dream in her mind of climbing to the heights.
Then Chakkra shouted: "Gunpat Rao, prince of Vindha declares the chase is on! Hold fast, Sahib, we go!" The earth rose up and the heavens tipped. There was no foundation; the bulwarks of earth's crust had given away. The landscape was racing past but backward and Nels, yet ahead, was a still, whirring streak.
But the wild herd broke away and ran shrieking up into the Vindha Hills. Coming down from Mitha Baba's neck between Skag's hands, the Gul Moti smiled into his anguished eyes. "Carlin! Are you safe?" he asked. "Safe now!" she answered. The tone of that low "now" startled him. "Where have you been?" he breathed. "Far " she said, "very far!" "But where?" he questioned.
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