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If there was a pistol in thecloset, it was strange that the Rajah did not pull
it out and useit. So whenhe does what I am almost sure he contemplates, you are
to fallinto the trap too.
That dirty dogwould never have repaid me, whatever I
threatened. At the least, they would have to pretend tobe ashamed of Hawkeseys
misbehavior. At the least, they would have to pretend tobe ashamed of Hawkeseys
misbehavior.
Major Eustace Smith will get a decoration. Why not go, then, with
a hundred men and seize Hawkes? Do you suppose thepriests will sit still and
say nothing? He could hear the tigersnarling and the crunch of the brutes fangs
on human fleshand bone. I would probably have donethe same thing!
But the
officer was not so easy to tempt into indiscretion. So you cant tell any one I
told you what to do.
I would like to know, though, what the Rajah isto do about
it!
Yes, he added, things are going too well.
You could go to the Residency and
report to MajorSmith. The villager turned his back and ran into the rain.
And
ifRam Dass is a witness, how shall I be able to betray you withoutruining
myself? You remind me of a virgin who has lost herreputation.
Then, as soon as
he has finished reprimanding you for theintrusion, turn the tables on him. But
I am not in them,praise be to the gods of Karma!
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