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Updated: June 6, 2025
The equipage was busied during the earlier hours of the day in leaving the visiting cards of the returned soldier of fortune in certain quarters well calculated to attract social notice. Threading the spacious gardens in rear of Ram Lal's establishment, the artful Major entered the jewel merchant's abode without the notice of the morning gossips of the Chandnee Chouk.
Could the mere word of a woman so swiftly and violently transform the mind of a man? His innate masculinity resented the idea. It succumbed, nevertheless. He was too deeply hurt in his pride and his passionate heart to think or feel sanely while the wound was still so fresh. He was scarcely stirred even by the allusion to Rajputana in Mr Ramji Lal's peroration.
I left them swearing that the party was broken up, and that they would all go back to Simla." "The sooner the better. We shall be there in three days from here, by the help of Ram Lal's wonderful post." "Between you I managed to get here quite well. How did you do it? I never missed a relay all the way from Julinder." "Oh, it is very easy," answered Isaacs.
Of course, with Sheikh Ahmed alive, there would be no need to use force for Baji Lal's rescue. But safeguarded on the way, we should be all the quicker in reaching our destination. "It was toward noon on the fourth day from Punderpur for there were now no inquiries to delay me that we came in sight of the village of Sengali.
And that I must look to. I think that I see my way to that girl's side now. God, what a pot of money she will have!" When Alan Hawke had finished his boldly warm letter to Euphrosyne, he sealed it and sent it to the post by Ram Lal's footman. The world looked very bright to him as, enjoying a capital cheroot, he studied for a half hour a wall map of India.
"The five thousand pounds frightened from this old wretch, Ram Lal, really squares me with the estate of the 'dear departed. The jewels are worth twice as much more, and, with Ram Lal's indorsement all the other drafts on Glyn's bank are as good as gold. There is twenty thousand clear profit. I will send them on now for acceptance, openly, through the Credit Lyonnaise when I get to Paris.
"It touches his one little raw spot!" And calling a boy the old Commissioner dispatched the note, carefully sealed, to the Club. The last one to seek his rest in the marble house, old Johnstone was strangely shaken by the events of the day. Berthe Louison's threats, Ram Lal's stubborn refusal, and the useless quarrel with Hawke had unmanned him.
Then, with a long, slender package hidden in his bosom, he stole out after a long circuit and entered Ram Lal's compound by the rear entrance, always at his use. "It is just as well not to make any little mistake just now," mused Hawke, as with cat-like tread he sped through the old jeweler's garden.
There was nothing to be said, for all that was to come was action; but I knew Isaacs distrusted the maharajah, and that without Ram Lal's assistance of whatever nature that might prove to be he would not have ventured to go alone to such a tryst. When I returned the camp was all alive, for it was nearly seven o'clock.
"None of the great people go there?" keenly queried Hawke. "Not even the fine ladies," laughed Ram Lal. "The old fellow may have his own memories of the past. He trusts no one. The girl is only a bulbul in a golden cage and with no one to sing to." Hawke cut short Ram Lal's flowery figures. "Does the Swiss woman trade with you?" he demanded.
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