"I am ready," she said.
"I should like to see the end of this affair," said the Commissioner. "Tell off a squad, Jenkins; you had better come too."
He was in high spirits at the prospect before him.
"Just keep your eye on the woman," he said in a low voice to a subaltern; but Rajhani heard, and called out—
"You need have no fear, my lord sahib; life is better than death. What I have said I will do."
"There, you have but to go and take him," and Rajhani pointed to a mud hut, hidden in the very thickest part of the jungle.
"Let me not see my lord," she cried bitterly, and threw herself face downwards on the earth.
It was early morning, the Commissioner and his party had encamped for a few hours, to start again before dawn.