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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Nay, truly, heavenborn, he but promised Mukhum Dass he would repay the sum with interest." "Swearing he would buy with the money, two horses which Mukhum Dass might seize as forfeit after the appointed time!" "Otherwise, heavenborn, Mukhum Dass would not have lent the money!" "And now Mukhum Dass threatens prison?" "Truly, heavenborn.
Chamu received him at the bottom of the house-steps, but Mukhum Dass walked up them uninvited. "The cellar," he said. "I have come to see the cellar. There is a complaint regarding the foundations. I must see." "But, sahib, the door is locked." "Unlock it." "I have no key." "Then break the lock!" "The cellar door is nailed down!" "Draw the nails!" "I dare not! I don't know how!
"It was thrust into my cummerbund from behind!" But Mukhum Dass set his face like a flint, and the wretched Chamu knew nothing about the law against compounding felonies.
"If it can be proved that Gungadhura murdered Mukhum Dass, or caused him to be murdered, I should say arrest him, try the brute and hang him!" said Topham. "Confound these native princes that take law into their own hands!" "I should say, let's prove the case if we can," said Samson, "and use that for an extra argument to force Gungadhura's abdication. No need to hang him.
A little later, in the ghat between Siva's temple and the building, where the dead Afghan used to keep his camels, Mukhum Dass, smiling as he rode, was struck down by a knife-blow from behind and pitched off his mule head-foremost. The mule ran away.
Jinendra's priest feigned surprise. "Is it not as clear as the stupidity on thy fat face that the ten-times casteless hussy is behind this? Bag of wind and widows' tenths! Now I must buy the house on the hill from Mukhum Dass and pay the brute his price for it!" "Borrowing the money from him first?" the priest suggested with a fat smirk.
If he'd killed a princess, or an Englishman, we'd be obliged to take extreme measures; but, as De Wing says, Mukhum Dass was an awful undesirable. If we hanged Gungadhura, we'd almost have to put one of his five sons on the throne to succeed him. If be abdicates, we can please ourselves.
The camels, with Yasmini and her women already mounted, were kneeling in the darkness outside the house of Mukhum Dass. "Come!" called Yasmini. "Hurry!" Dick kissed his wife waved his hand to Yasmini helped Tess on to the last camel in the kneeling line and they were off, the camel-men not needing to shout to make those Bikaniri racers rise and start.
He has been able to discover, by cross-examining some witnesses beggars, I believe, who haunt the house, that Mukhum Dass got to the place ahead of Gungadhura, burgled the cellar, removed something of great value to Gungadhura, and went off with it. On the way home he was murdered." "The murder of Mukhum Dass was known very soon afterward, of course, to the police," said Norwood.
Gungadhura went deeply into debt with Mukhum Dass, to send money to the Mahsudis, who think more of gold than promises. The fool imagines that the English will let him levy, extra taxes afterward to recoup himself. Besides, there would be the daily expenses of his army, from which he could extract a lakh or two. Patali yearns for diamonds in the fillings of her teeth!"
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