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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Rujub," Bathurst said suddenly, "there must have been medical stores taken when the camp was captured drugs and things of that sort. Can you find out who has become possessed of them?" "I might find out, sahib. Doubtless the men who looted the camp will have sold the drugs to the native shops, for English drugs are highly prized.
Then a small party of soldiers came up and relieved the sentries. This time the number of the sentries at the gate was doubled, and three men were posted, one on each of the other sides of the building. After seeing this done he returned to the house. After he had finished his evening meal Rujub and Rabda came into the room.
My mother and sister both regarded me as a little out of my mind when I said you would be back this week. They have not the slightest belief in what I told them about Rujub, and insist that it was all a sort of hallucination brought on by my sufferings. Perhaps they will believe now." "Your face is wonderfully better," he said presently.
She must have suffered dreadfully; but I obtained some ointment for her, and she was better when I left her. She is with the wife of the Sahib Hunter." "Now, Rabda, see if the meal is prepared," Rujub said. "We are both hungry, and you can have eaten nothing this morning."
Not mere common tricks, sahib, but mysteries such as are known to few even of us. Do not say no, sahib." "Well, if you wish it, Rujub, I will give you half an hour," and Bathurst looked at his watch. "It is seven now, and I have to dine. I have work to do that will take me three hours at least, but at eleven I shall have finished. You will see a light in my room; come straight to the open window."
"That would do no good to the lady, sahib," Rujub said calmly. "She would only be left without a friend, and the Nana's death might be the signal for the murder of every white prisoner. Ah, here comes my daughter." Rabda came up quickly, and stopped before Bathurst with her head bowed and her arms crossed in an attitude of humility.
"My life is my lord's," the girl said quietly. "What I have done is nothing." "If we had but known, Rujub, that she would be moved at once, we might have rescued her on the way." Rujub shook his head. "There are far too many people along the road, sahib; it could not have been done. But, of course, there was no knowing that she would be sent off directly after the Nana had seen her."
I think I am getting superstitious, and believe in all sorts of things since so many strange events have happened. Those pictures on the smoke that came true, Rujub sending you messages at Deennugghur, and Rabda making me hear her voice and giving me hope in prison.
He is fully cognizant of my power, and fears it." They made their way back without interruption to the clump of bushes near the house. "When shall I see you again?" Bathurst asked. "I do not know," replied Rujub, "but be sure that I shall be at hand to aid you if possible should danger arise." As soon as Bathurst began to remove the covering of the hole, a voice came from below.
After a short search they found stairs leading down from the terrace, and after passing through some empty rooms reached a door opening into the courtyard. "Do you stay here, Rujub," Bathurst said. "They will take me for one of themselves. If I succeed without noise, I shall come this way; if not, we will go out through the gate, and you had best leave by the way we came."
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