Let them! Let
them, too, pay the price. Swoop down on Harumpore, sahib--join there
with Kendrick sahib's command. There make a fresh plan, and swoop
down on some other place. But move, quickly, and keep on moving!
And waste no time on places that are already lost."
"Then you would have me leave those women and that child, that you
tell me of to their fate?"
"Nay, sahib! I am not of your command. I have done my duty to the
Raj, and I now go about my own business."
"And that is?"
"To repay a debt that I owe the Raj, sahib!"
"Your answers are rather unnecessarily evasive, Juggut Khan. Be
good enough to explain yourself!"
"I ride back to Jailpore, sahib. I would have stayed there, but
it seemed right and soldierly to bring through the news first. Now,
I return to do what I may to rescue those whom I hid there. I owe
that to the Raj!"
"You mean that you will ride alone?"
"At least half of the distance, sahib. I had a favor to ask."
"Well?"
"Are you marching north, sahib?"
"I have not determined yet.
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