10/31 I have a house there, and you can stay with my wife. I was ayah to the major and his wife--whom your people have just killed, and whom I loved dearly--and in my charge is their child. He is but a few months old, and I must take him with me." "It is impossible," Sufder replied. "No white man, woman, or child would be safe in the Deccan, at present." "No one would see his face," the woman said. "I would wrap him up, and will give out that he is my own child. |