Part 16 (1/2)
”I know it is! Iine that poor child, dick, cooped up in a palace, starving and parching herself for fear of poison!”
”But how are you going to get to her? You can't bowl over Gungadhura's guards with a sunshade”
”Samson wrote this for ine Samson's favors are paid for sooner or later”
”So are mine, dick! The beast has called me Theresa three tiest that his preferment and my future happiness may bear some relation to each other”
”See here, Tess, maybe I'd better beat him and have done with it”
”No He can't corrupt ht easily do you an injury Let him alone, dick, and be as civil as you can You did splendidly this evening--”
”Before I knehat he'd said to you!”
”Now you've all thegirl in the palace, and Samson is the only influence I can count on Do as I say, dick, and be civil to hiuy's suggestions aggregate an ounce or two! First, I'adhura's money while I hunt for buried treasure; but I'm to tip off Samson first Second, I'm to look on while he makes his political fortune with , Tess?”
She kissed hi to seem to be fooled by him, for the present at all events Let's knohat's at the bottom of all this, and help the princess and Tom Tripe if it's possible Are you tired?”
”Yes Why?”
”If you weren't tired I was going to ask you to put a turban on as soon as it's dark, and dress up like a sais and drive me to Yasmini's palace, with a revolver in each pocket in case of accidents, and eyes and ears skinned until I coain”
”Oh, I' then I'll put up a haet wine from the cellar, and et the dog-cart to the door I'll keep it waiting there while you run up-stairs and change Hurry, dick, hurry--it's growing dark!
I'll put some sandwiches under the seat for you to eat while you're waiting in the dark for me”
Chapter Six
An Audit by the Gods
(2)
Loud laughed the Gods (and their irony was pestilence; Pain was in their mockery, affliction in their scorn
The ryotwari cried On a stricken countryside, For the scab fell on the sheepfold and the upta! Enter up your reckoning!
Yuer the assessment of the dead!
We left a law of kindness, But they bowed themselves in blindness To a cruelty consuupta! Once we sang and danced with theloomy temples they lay foreheads in the dust!
To us they looked for pleasure And we never spared the measure Till they set their priests between us and we left theust