For a few years I felt I ought not to appear before any one or do anything, but my darling children would not have it so.
Photo Th. Paar.
“RAJEY.”
Raj Rajendra, Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharajah of Cooch Behar, 1912.
CHAPTER XIII
ANOTHER BLOW
A few days after my husband had passed away news of Rajey’s succession to the Gadi of Cooch Behar arrived from the Government of India. I was seated on the landing at the Porchester Gate house when my boy came downstairs, knelt by me, clasped his hands on my knee and sobbed. Perhaps he felt his father’s loss most at that moment. We had a service in the evening, conducted by my cousin, the Rev. P. L. Sen, at which Rajey’s short prayer was most impressive.
He had all his father’s effects sealed and brought over to Cooch Behar, and he carried out his father’s “will” to the letter.