The Story of Sonny Sahib

by Sara Jeannette Duncan

THE STORY OF SONNY SAHIB

By

MRS. EVERARD COTES

(SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN)

1894

[CHAPTER I]	[CHAPTER II]	[CHAPTER III]	[CHAPTER IV]	[CHAPTER V]
[CHAPTER VI]	[CHAPTER VII]	[CHAPTER VIII]	[CHAPTER IX]	[CHAPTER X]

CHAPTER I

'Ayah,' the doctor-sahib said in the vernacular, standing beside the bed, 'the fever of the mistress is like fire. Without doubt it cannot go on thus, but all that is in your hand to do you have done. It is necessary now only to be very watchful. And it will be to dress the mistress, and to make everything ready for a journey. Two hours later all the sahib-folk go from this place in boats, by the river, to Allahabad. I will send an ox-cart to take the mistress and the baby and you to the bathing ghat.'

'Jeldi karo!' he added, which meant 'Quickly do!'—a thing people say a great many times a day in India.