Part 31 (1/2)

The Gerh not so hard as Yasmini; the chief difference was that nobody could have told she was staring, whereas the Gerht, and you shall be there! You shall lead us then to this material aid you promise, and after that, if it all turns out to be a lie, as I suspect, ill talk about cobras”

For a minute, twothe road toward Yasht in front of hih; and Yasmini bowed obedience

”When will you start?” the German asked

”Now! In twenty iment and reach caues,” said the Gerrowled the Sikh

”My secret inforio, iments as possible are on the water, and then strike hard with the aid of such as have refused to go”

The carriage drew up at Yasmini's front door, and a e

”Say the rest inside!” she ordered ”Go into the house! Quickly!”

So the Ger toward the door much too spryly for the type of street merchant he was supposed to be

”Do you h ”Do you e a mutiny? How can you?”

”She-buffalo!” he answered, with the first low laugh she had heard froan

She ran into the house and all the way up the two steep flights of stairs, laughing like a dozen peals of fairy bells

At the head of the stairs she began to sing, for she looked back and saw babu Sita Rah and the German

”The Gods surely love Yasmini!” she told her maids ”Catch me that babu and bottle him! Drive him into a room where I can speak with him alone!”

”Oh, my God, my God!” wailed the babu at the stair-head from amid a maze of women who hustled and shoved hio ”Ilecture here-, or all his hopes will be blasted everlastinglee! No-that is rooo there!”

In three native languages, one after the other, he pleaded and wailed to no good end; the women were too many for him He was shoved into a shter-stall, and a door was slammed shut on him He screamed at an unexpected voice from behind a curtain, and a ht of Yasmini

”Listen, babuji,” she purred to hi for me?” demanded the Gerh ”Are we to turn aside for every fat babu that asks to speak to us? I have sent for horses”

”I will speak with that an to walk up and down the length of the long roo aside the cushi+ons irritably, and at one end knocking over a great bowl of flowers He did not appear conscious of his clumsiness, and did not seem to see the maids who ran to mop up the water At the next turn down the room he pushed between the hi a black beard reflectively; he was perfectly sure that Yas to wait for it