It is well that the section will not return! We
will ride out safely before morning!"
"And, my husband--he knew--all this--before he left me here?"
"Nay! That he did not! Had I told him, he had disobeyed his orders
and shamed his service; he is young yet, and a hothead! He will
be far along the road to Jundhra before he knows what burns. And
then he will remember that he trusts me and obey orders and press on!"
"And you knew and did not tell him!"
"Of a truth I knew!"
She stood in silence for a moment, gazing at the red glow on the skyline,
and then turned to read, if she could, what was on the grim, grizzled
face of Mahommed Khan.
"The ayah!" he growled. "I have yet to ask questions of the ayah.
Have I permission to take her to the other room?"
She was leaning through the window again and did not answer him.
"Who's that moving in the shadow down below?" she asked him suddenly.
He leaned out beside her and gazed into the shadow. Then he called
softly in a tongue she did not know and some one rose up from the
shadow and answered him.
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