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'The name only had slipped my memory. Tibu's gang's gallery is here. 'A lie, said Kundoo. 'There have been no galleries in this place since my day. 'Three paces was the depth of the ledge, muttered Janki without heeding 'and oh, my poor bones! I have found it! It is here, up this ledge. Come all you, one by one, to the place of my voice, and I will count you.
Janki was in my veranda all this morning, telling me that Kundoo had eloped with his wife Unda or Anda, I think her name was. 'Hillo! And those were the cattle that you risked your life to clear out of Twenty-Two! 'No I was thinking of the Company's props, not the Company's men. 'Sounds better to say so now; but I don't believe you, old fellow.
He loaded her with ornaments not brass or pewter, but real silver ones and she rewarded him by flirting outrageously with Kundoo of Number Seven gallery gang. Kundoo was really the gang-head, but Janki Meah insisted upon all the work being entered in his own name, and chose the men that he worked with.
Pretty little Unda only knew that her old husband was a fool who could be managed. She took no interest in the collieries except in so far as they swallowed up Kundoo five days out of the seven, and covered him with coal-dust.
An hour the men worked, and then the women cleared away the coal. 'It is farther than I thought, said Janki. 'The air is very bad; but strike, Kundoo, strike hard. For the fifth time Kundoo took up the pick as the Sonthal crawled back. The song had scarcely recommenced when it was broken by a yell from Kundoo that echoed down the gallery: 'Par hua! Par hua!
Janki Meah glared at Kundoo, but, as Janki Meah was blind, Kundoo was not impressed. He had come to argue with Janki Meah, and, if chance favored, to make love to the old man's pretty young wife. This was Kundoo's grievance, and he spoke in the name of all the five men who, with Janki Meah, composed the gang in Number Seven gallery of Twenty-Two.
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