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Then, sahiba, if thou art here perhaps there might yet be a way-perhaps, yes? a way, still, to escape me?" She was trembling. She could not help beginning to believe him. Whatever might be true of what he said was certainly not comforting. "But, while my army comes in search of me, my brother Howrah will be making merry with my palace and belongings.
'We are at the end of the pilgrimage. 'No thanks to thee thine was not cut off for good and all a week back. I heard what the Sahiba said to thee when we bore thee up on the cot. Mahbub laughed, and tugged his newly dyed beard. 'I was meditating upon other matters that tide. It was the hakim from Dacca broke my meditations.
"The time will come when your government and my brother, who at present is Maharajah Howrah will be of little service to you. Then, perhaps, you may care to recall my promise to load all the jewels you can choose out of the treasure-house on you. Then, perhaps, you may, remember that I said 'a throne is better than a grave, sahiba. Or else " "Or else what, Jaimihr-sahib?"
"I slew a man once to save thee, sahiba!" he mocked. "Why slink away? Have I ever been thy enemy?" Then he folded his arms and walked off between his guards, without even an acknowledgment of Alwa's or any other man's existence on the earth. Alwa spat as he wiped blood from his long sabre.
"Where," she continued, with an imperative stamp of a daintily-shod foot, "is that wretched tonga-wallah?" "Sahiba," protested Ram Nath, with a great show of deference, "how should I know? Belike he is in Badshah Junction, whither ha returned very late last night, being travel-worn and weary, and where I left him, being sent with this excellent tonga to take his place." "You were?
Said the Sahiba cheerily from an upper window, after compliments: 'What is the good of an old woman's advice to an old man? I told thee I told thee, Holy One, to keep an eye upon the chela. How didst thou do it? Never answer me! I know. He has been running among the women. Look at his eyes hollow and sunk and the Betraying Line from the nose down! He has been sifted out! Fie! Fie!
There will be devastation and other things in my army's rear for which there is no need and for which I have no stomach. I detest the thought of them, sahiba. Therefore, sahiba, I would drive a bargain. Notice, sahiba, I say not one word of love, though love such as mine is has seldom been offered to a woman. I say no word of love as yet.
"Sahiba!" he trotted beside her, his great horse keeping up easily with her pony's canter "I have told you oftener than once that I make a good friend and a bad enemy!" "And I have answered oftener than once that I do not need your friendship, and am not afraid of you! You forget that the British Government will hold your royal brother liable for my safety and my father's!"
"I would need some to guard my rear," he answered. "I could lead five thousand to the British aid." "Is that the truth?" "On my honor, sahiba." "And you wish to marry me?" "Sahiba I I have no other wish!" "I agree to marry you provided you will lead five thousand men to the Company's aid, but not until you have done so." "You will come to Howrah?" She could feel his excitement.
With thee in my camp as hostage I would risk agreement with them, but not otherwise. Escape with me now, or follow. But bring no Rangars, sahiba! Come alone!" "I will not. I would not dare trust you." Jaimihr laughed. "I have been reckoning, sahiba, how many hours will pass before my army comes to rip this nest of Alwa's from its roots, and defile the whole of it!
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