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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 4: A British Resident
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Truly Nana Furnuwees is a great man, and I will gladly give the undertaking he asks for; that, in the event of his succeeding in placing me on the musnud, he shall be my minister, with the same authority and power that he had under Mahdoo." "I have, at the farmhouse where I am stopping, a thousand gold mohurs, which Nana has sent to enable you to begin your preparations; but he urges that you should be extremely careful for, as you see by what I have told you, he has ample power to carry out the plan without any assistance from yourself, and it is most important that nothing shall be done that can arouse the suspicions of Balloba, until all is ready for the final stroke.

I have not brought it with me, today, as I knew not how vigilant they might be in camp, and it was possible that my sacks of grain might be examined.

As, however, I passed in without question, I will bring it when I next come, which will be in two days." "I suppose there is no objection to my telling Phurkay what is being done ?" "None at all, Your Highness.

He has not yet been informed, though communications have passed between him and Nana.

But, although the latter was well convinced of his devotion, he thought it safer that no one should know the extent of the plot, until all was in readiness." Two days later, Harry made another journey to the camp, and this time with the bags of money hidden among the grain, in one of the sacks.


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