[At the Point of the Bayonet by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Point of the Bayonet CHAPTER 2: A Strange Bringing Up 11/48
We shall go in the wagon." The distance from Jooneer to Bombay was but about eighty miles, and the journey was performed in five days, and Ramdass took down a light load of maize, whose sale would pay the expenses of their journey.
Soyera rode and slept on the maize, except in two villages, where she was able to procure a lodging for the night. Ramdass and Harry walked by the bullocks, and slept at night by the roadside, wrapped in their blankets. On arriving at Bombay they put up at a khan, in the native town and, the next morning, leaving Ramdass and Harry to wander about and look at the wonders of the city, Soyera went to the shop of a Parsee merchant, who was in the habit of supplying the canteen of the troops, contracted for supplies of forage and other matters, and carried on the business of a native banker.
She had often been to his place with Mrs.Lindsay; and had, from the time that she entered her service, deposited her savings with him.
She had, in the first place, asked her master to keep them for her; but he had advised her to go to Jeemajee. The Parsee was, himself, in his shop.
She went up to him. "You do not remember me, sahib ?" she said.
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