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Updated: August 4, 2024
As to an old Mahomedan woman from Rubbulgurh, who cooked her chupatties alone and somewhat despised, she heard the march-past too, and was troubled all day long with the foolish idea that the captain-sahib would presently come in to tea, and would ask her, Tooni, where the memsahib was.
Travers, "and he dined in the tent. How long did he stay?" "He left the camp at eleven o'clock on the camel to catch the night train to Bombay. The Captain-sahib saw him off from the edge of the camp." "Ah," said Mr. Travers, "Captain Ballantyne saw him off?" "Yes from the edge of the camp." "And then went back to the tent?" "Yes." "Now I want to take you to another point. You waited at dinner?"
Baram Singh then related that Captain Ballantyne was still sitting in his chair by the bureau, but that the drawer of the bureau was now open, and that on the ground close to Captain Ballantyne's feet there was a red despatch-box. "The Captain-sahib," he continued, "turned to me with great anger, and drove me again out of the room." "Thank you," said Mr. Travers, and he sat down.
He will give you two pounds of milk for the baby for five rupees. 'Rupia! I have not even one! said the ayah, looking toward the bed; 'the captain-sahib has not come these thirty days as he promised. The colonel-sahib has sent the food. The memsahib is for three days without a pice. 'I'll pay, said the doctor shortly, and turned hurriedly to go.
"Yes." "And towards the close of dinner Mrs. Ballantyne left the room?" "Yes." "She did not come back again?" "No." "No. The two men were then left alone?" "Yes." "After dinner was the table cleared?" "Yes," said Baram Singh, "the Captain-sahib called to me to clear the table quickly." "Yes," said Travers. "Now, will you tell me what the Captain-sahib was doing while you were clearing the table?"
"I answered what questions were asked. Besides, when the sahib left the camp the Captain-sahib was alive." At this moment Mr. Travers leaned across to the prosecuting counsel and said: "It will all be made clear when Mr. Thresk goes into the box." And once more, as Mr. Travers spoke these words, a rustle of expectancy ran round the court.
Tooni bought him herself a little blue and gold Mussulman cap in the bazar. The captain-sahib would be angry, but then the captain-sahib was very far away, killed perhaps, and Tooni thought the blue and gold cap wonderfully becoming to Sonny Sahib.
But Abdul, having heard no guns for nearly an hour and a half, was inclined to be very brave, and said that without doubt they should all get safely to Allahabad; and there, when the memsahib was better, they would find the captain-sahib again, and he would give them many rupees backsheesh for being faithful to her.
Baram Singh reflected. "First of all the Captain-sahib offered a box of cheroots to his visitor, and his visitor refused and took a pipe from his pocket. The Captain-sahib then lit a cheroot for himself and replaced the box on the top of the bureau." "And after that?" asked Travers.
He grumbled at that, but then he had grumbled steadily for two years, yet whenever Tooni proposed that they should go and find the captain-sahib, had said no, it was far, and he was an old man. Tooni should go when he was dead.
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