6/9 "If the English can hold India, let them! I will not fight against them, for they are honest men for all their madness. If they cannot, then I am for Rajputana, not India--India may burn or rot or burst to pieces, so long as Rajputana stands! But--" He paused a moment, and looked at each man in turn, and tapped his sabre-hilt, "-- if a Cunnigan-bahadur were among us--a man whom I could trust to lead me and mine and every man--I would lend him my sword for the sheer honor of helping him hack truth out of corruption! I have nothing more to say!" "One word more, cousin!" said Mahommed Gunga. "I was risaldar in Cunnigan-bahadur's regiment of horse. There was more than mere discipline between us. |