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142 A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR corpse to the fury of my young and active limbs. Come, are you willing? Come now and try.” She laughed and almost yelled exultingly. “See, I throw the stick aside,” and as she spoke she flung it on the floor in front of him. “I would not frighten you over much. Now clasp me to your wizened, vile old bosom. Why not? You see I am unarmed. But beware, beware, I say. I have given you full warning. Let the old man come and try. See, I stand waiting to receive him.” But the old man, thus adjured, did not rise. He turned round to the Chief Secretar y, and smiling quietly as though he had made some great discovery. “I see that the girl is mad,” he whispered, sufficiently audibly for every one in the room to hear. “She is not accountable for these strange threats and actions. That is the secret of her having remained so long unchosen in spite of her fine appearance; she is possessed. What shall you do with her? Send her back to the prison? I advise you to, it is hardly safe to keep a raving lunatic here among other women and children. She might frighten your wife too, and who can tell what the result of that might not be, especially at the present time. Take m y ad vice, send her awa y at once. It is the only thing to be done. She is not safe.” But the Chief Secretary only smiled and asked the Mir Sahib if he were satisfied now to let her alone and let her go. “Let her alone? Do you think I want a tigress in m y house, a mad woman for my wife? Of course I’ll let her go. I would not have her at any price, not even as a free gift to be my lowliest slave. There, go, girl,” he said, turning round and addressing her. “You are not a woman, but a beast, a savage. Do you hear me, go!” “Am I to go?” she said, addressing the only master she seemed inclined to acknowledge, in a voice the y had not heard before, the soft gentle tones in which she had been wont to soothe her father, and as though no storm had just been surging and swelling within her, arousing her fiercest and most unruly passions. “Yes, go,” he said sternly, “and set yourself to work, and see that I hear no further complaints. Remember you have hitherto disgraced yourself. You are here only on trial.” But he was only human after all, and though far too much impressed with his own dignit y to allow himself to show any gratification, a careful observer would have detected something a little artificial in his well-assumed indifference. That fierce, strong, magnificent creature could be gentle as a dove, and he was the man who could tame her.
143 A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR CHAPTER XXVI A PATIENT WIFE AND so Gul Begum’s fate was settled, for ere forty days had passed a little stranger had made his appearance in the Chief Secretar y’s house. A little stranger who cost his mother her life, and his father a devoted attendant and sympathiser, if not companion in our acceptation of the word. Nor did he live to repay what he had cost. A few hours after she had breathed her last, they laid him b y his dead mother’s side.
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