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Away bounded Buzzy, evidently enjoying the fun, and I after him, to find him at bay beneath a currant bush. I was a dozen yards away in the central path, and, of course, in full view of the upper windows of the house; but if I had noted that fact then, I was so far gone in the romance of the situation that I daresay I should have called the house the rajah's palace.
Owing possibly to his habitual reticence, he was no favourite with the English portion of the community. Daisy Musgrave had nicknamed him Bluebeard long since, and Peggy firmly believed that somewhere in the depths of the Rajah's Palace this old man kept his chamber of horrors. "What on earth has he come for, Nick?" murmured Olga, as they found places in the pavilion.
He argued that it was better to allow them to advance to the point where the valley opened out into a plain, some two miles wide. He had no doubt whatever that the rajah's troops would be able to inflict a crushing defeat upon the invaders, who would be so disheartened, thereby, that they would be little likely to renew the attack.
But when the rajah informed them that the order was given in consequence of the white officer's advice, they set about the work readily and, before morning, the dead were all hidden from sight by a deep layer of earth. The next day passed without incident. At nightfall a sharp lookout was kept, not only on the palisade but from the top of the rajah's house.
"You mean you couldn't do the writing?" "I wouldn't know how to!" "Well then, that's easily arranged. Let me get some one to collaborate with you. There's Richard Haberton you know who he is?" "No," said Thyrsis, faintly. "He's the author of 'The Rajah's Diamond' it's playing with five companions now, and its third season. And he dramatized 'In Honor's Cause' you've seen that, no doubt.
Finding great inconvenience from his incapacity in these respects, he applied himself diligently to his alphabet, and was soon able to carry on all official correspondence of any importance to himself. The whole of the political, fiscal, and judicial communications are submitted to him, and the departments controlled by him, very little regard being had to the Rajah's will on the subject.
As he sat puzzling over the problem the servant who waited on him entered the room and salaamed. "Ghurrib Parwar! The English missie baba sends salaams and wishes to speak with you." Dermot sprang up hastily. "Where is she, Rama? In the lounge?" "No, Huzoor. The missie baba is in the Red Garden." "Where is that?" "It is the Rajah's own private garden, through there."
To carry one of their campongs, I must have twenty-five Europeans, and from some thirty to fifty Bugis, who, coming from Singapore, may proceed at once to Sadong, or, rather, the campong Tangi. Seriff Sahib is a great freebooter, and dispatches his retainers to attack the weak tribes here for the sake of the slaves, calculating, on the rajah's presumed weakness, that he can do so with impunity.
They grew cooler, however, on discovering the rajah's troops at the entrance of the temple, and hurried back to their devotions with the advice they had received from the stranger strongly impressed on their minds. Many a prayer was offered up that Doorga would protect their ill-gotten wealth from the grasp of the infidels.
These may be supposed to be words of course; but, from every experience which he had of the Rajah's mind and conduct, whilst he was at Tanjore, he has reason to believe that his declarations of gratitude to the Company were perfectly sincere. He speaks to the town of Nagore at present, and a certain district, not of the districts to the amount of which they afterwards received.
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