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diff --git a/59798-8.txt b/59798-0.txt index 336e818..99b23d7 100644 --- a/59798-8.txt +++ b/59798-0.txt @@ -1,28 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Plague of the Heart, by Francis Prevost +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 59798 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. -Title: The Plague of the Heart -Author: Francis Prevost - -Release Date: June 23, 2019 [EBook #59798] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PLAGUE OF THE HEART *** - - - - -Produced by Al Haines @@ -266,7 +245,7 @@ Terrington stretched out his hand into the soft night air. "It's summer here, sir," he said with seeming irrelevance, "and summer at Simla; summer for three full months. It's summer at Sar too; but in -four weeks there will be snow on the passes, on the Palári and Darai; +four weeks there will be snow on the passes, on the Palári and Darai; and, in six, whoever goes out of Sar that way," and he nodded towards India, "goes because he must." @@ -328,7 +307,7 @@ Out of this very consideration arose the first note of discord, owing, as Chantry put it under his breath, to Terrington's "damned pigheadedness." -His own guard of Sikhs, Dogras and Bakót levies had been housed in the +His own guard of Sikhs, Dogras and Bakót levies had been housed in the Old Palace, now called the Fort, a low mud and stone building, whose brown walls of astounding thickness rose hard upon the green tangle of chenar in which the Residency stood. The little force fitted it as @@ -432,7 +411,7 @@ Its observed success made him accept more readily the difficulties entailed, especially since Terrington seemed to expect no assistance in removing them. -He set to work upon the Fort with the Bakót levies on the afternoon of +He set to work upon the Fort with the Bakót levies on the afternoon of his arrival, and began at the same time to organize a system of supply. He was at his desk, or directing alterations in the Fort until a late hour of the evening, eating his dinner with one hand and working with @@ -653,16 +632,16 @@ every one they save." "And how are we to go?" asked the other. -"Oh; by the Palári," replied the soldier. it "By the Palári!" +"Oh; by the Palári," replied the soldier. it "By the Palári!" exclaimed Sir Colvin. "Why the snow's over it already." -"Yes, sir; but Gale is at this end of it in Rashát. What's to happen +"Yes, sir; but Gale is at this end of it in Rashát. What's to happen to him if we creep out by the south?" But the Commissioner shook his head, to Terrington's intense relief. That last argument clinched his decision. The Government which put him into the pickle must take him out of it. He was not going to fight his -way home with three hundred men through the snows of the Palári and +way home with three hundred men through the snows of the Palári and between the desolate precipices of Maristan, where once in ancient days an army had melted like the spring water upon its courses. So Terrington returned to his loopholes, and Sir Colvin to that merry @@ -1262,7 +1241,7 @@ met by a great emergency. break out the loopholes and put the place at once in a state of defence. You will parade every other available man in the courtyard within half an hour, in marching order a hundred and fifty rounds a -man. Dore will take over Langford's Sikhs and Dogras; the Bakót levies +man. Dore will take over Langford's Sikhs and Dogras; the Bakót levies will reinforce the Fort guard. Send Risaldar Hussain Shah to me here." Rose Chantry held her sobbing breath in astonishment at the note of @@ -1642,7 +1621,7 @@ unexpectedness of his announcement, and Walcot half rose to his feet. "Abandon the Fort?" he exclaimed. "Abandon the Fort, and everything we cannot carry, and retire by the -Palári upon Rashát," said Terrington quietly. +Palári upon Rashát," said Terrington quietly. "But I understood, if you'll excuse me," continued Walcot, trying to control his excitement, "that all the defences of the Fort which we've @@ -1770,19 +1749,19 @@ fault as to its cause, heard him with determined patience. "And by which pass do you mean to retire?" he exclaimed at last, unable to shake Terrington's resolve. -"By the Palári," said the other. +"By the Palári," said the other. -"The Palári!" cried Walcot derisively. "Why, it's the worst pass on +"The Palári!" cried Walcot derisively. "Why, it's the worst pass on this side of the Pamir. May I ask why you've chosen it?" -"Have you been through the Palári or Darai?" Terrington enquired. +"Have you been through the Palári or Darai?" Terrington enquired. "No." "Then you can hardly appreciate why I've chosen it," said Terrington -quietly. "The Palári is the only one which we've a chance of reaching +quietly. "The Palári is the only one which we've a chance of reaching without being cut off; it's the only one not commanded from above at -this time of year, and Freddy Gale, holding this end of it at Rashát, +this time of year, and Freddy Gale, holding this end of it at Rashát, is absolutely done for unless we dig him out." His reasons were listened to by the room in absorbing silence. Then @@ -1835,9 +1814,9 @@ only one of his subordinates on whose decision Terrington could rely. He had left in India an uncompleted love affair but he spoke of nothing in his last moments but the safety of the force. -"You'll have to watch those Bakót chaps," he murmured, "there's no +"You'll have to watch those Bakót chaps," he murmured, "there's no fight in 'em." And again with more difficulty. "Those beggars 'll cut -you off at the Sorágh Gul; get round by the Bewal road. You'll have to +you off at the Sorágh Gul; get round by the Bewal road. You'll have to smash 'em there." His mind was evidently away with the retreating troops. His grip tightened on Terrington's hand. "If only I could go along with you, old man. Oh, it's hard to come to grief at the first @@ -1914,8 +1893,8 @@ knew when to leave a man unhindered and to give a horse its head, and the instinct helped him with a woman's tears. He stood watching her sobbing shoulders, and the shadows on her golden hair, but his thoughts, the instant they were freed from her, flew forward to the -forcing of the Sorágh Gul, the double-headed defile on the road to -Rashát, where he knew Mir Khan could intercept him and compel him to +forcing of the Sorágh Gul, the double-headed defile on the road to +Rashát, where he knew Mir Khan could intercept him and compel him to face an attack from three sides at once. He tried to compel his memory to yield some details of the position which he might turn to account, for his own field-sketches only supplied features which would be useful @@ -1971,7 +1950,7 @@ a nod and an instant's tightening of his fingers upon her shoulder. At sunset he read the sentences of the burial service over the trench beside the Residency in which the bodies of the three Englishmen were laid. The dusk was spreading under the autumn twilight, while the pale -spaces of eternal snow beyond Rashát were veiled with rose in the clear +spaces of eternal snow beyond Rashát were veiled with rose in the clear heaven above the purple ramparts of the valley and the flames of the pyres on which the dead Hindus were burned blazed in clear spires of light through the increasing gloom. @@ -2012,9 +1991,9 @@ An hour after midnight the gate of the courtyard was thrown open, and a dark stream of horsemen poured silently out and turned north-east towards the river. They had left their lances broken behind them, but took every ounce of food that they could carry and three hundred rounds -a man. Hard on the dust of their hoofs followed the Sikhs and Bakót +a man. Hard on the dust of their hoofs followed the Sikhs and Bakót levies under Dore; the Sikhs, long and lithe, fine marchers and good -fighters all of them; the Bakót men short and square, very doubtful +fighters all of them; the Bakót men short and square, very doubtful shooters and untried in fight, but hard hill-men, at home in the snow, and equal to almost any labour. After them came the long lines of mules out of the gully snorting and shaking their packs and harness, @@ -2028,7 +2007,7 @@ the other, and had himself gone down to the yard to explain away the carpenter's difficulties. But he shook his head at the boxes in which Rose had packed what she considered "absolutely necessary." -"No good!" he said. "Even if we got them to the Palári, we'd have to +"No good!" he said. "Even if we got them to the Palári, we'd have to leave them in the snow." "How many bearers have I?" Rose demanded. @@ -2077,7 +2056,7 @@ Determined to clear out of Sar, three ways lay before him. The valley of the Kotli to the south, through the Gate of the Great Evil, by which, with Sir Colvin Aire, he had come up from Sampur; the Darai Pass, due east across the Kalawari, and then south-east into the -Punjab; and the Palári, north-east, through the wild welter of ranges +Punjab; and the Palári, north-east, through the wild welter of ranges under the roof of the world and over plains of snow to the western border of Cashmir. @@ -2088,47 +2067,47 @@ always against him. The Darai, which came next in feasibility, was approached over an open and exposed country, and was commanded from above in its most dangerous -defiles. Consequently it was by the Palári, the most arduous of all +defiles. Consequently it was by the Palári, the most arduous of all the roads between Sar and Hindustan, that Terrington determined to retire. -To Rashát, which Gale was holding at the foot of the Palári, there were +To Rashát, which Gale was holding at the foot of the Palári, there were two roads from Sar. One, the longer, which Terrington had taken, led up the left bank of the river through gorges of increasing grandeur -till the Sorágh Gul was reached. There the shorter road from Sar +till the Sorágh Gul was reached. There the shorter road from Sar joined it, and the two rose together to the snows. Terrington was forced to go the longer way because he could cover his retreat along it with a small rear-guard, and because the shorter passed through Sar itself and beside the very gates of the Palace; but he had to face the -certainty of finding Mir Khan and his men at Sorágh Gul in a position -almost impregnable barring his advance upon Rashát. There, if wedged +certainty of finding Mir Khan and his men at Sorágh Gul in a position +almost impregnable barring his advance upon Rashát. There, if wedged between the force in front of him and that following him from Sar, he would be forced to starve or to surrender. The six hundred men under him were too few to be used offensively; he could not squander them against odds in the open. If compelled to -fight his way across the Sorágh Gul not many of that six hundred would -find shelter in Rashát. By craft alone could he hope to reach the -Palári with the foe behind him, and the craft that should deceive Mir +fight his way across the Sorágh Gul not many of that six hundred would +find shelter in Rashát. By craft alone could he hope to reach the +Palári with the foe behind him, and the craft that should deceive Mir Khan would have to be greatly daring. Greatly daring it was. He divided his force into three parts. The first, composed entirely of the Guides Cavalry Bengal Lancers, was to push on by forced marches to -the further side of the double-headed valley which ended in the Sorágh +the further side of the double-headed valley which ended in the Sorágh Gul. Being mounted, on a fairly good road and with eight hours' start, it could reach this before the enemy, who was mostly on foot, could arrive by the shorter road through Bewal. Sending on a summons to -Rashát for every man that could be spared, Walcot, who commanded the +Rashát for every man that could be spared, Walcot, who commanded the cavalry, had orders to wait the arrival of Mir Khan from Bewal, and -then, making as much dust as possible, to retire slowly on Rashát, +then, making as much dust as possible, to retire slowly on Rashát, fighting as determined a rear-guard action as he could without exposing his men, in order to draw Mir Khan after him across the Gul. It was Terrington's hope that the Khan, seeing British troops beyond the Gul, would imagine that the entire force had reached it by a superhuman effort and, after a perfunctory search of the road towards Sar, would -follow furiously in order to drive it headlong into Rashát. +follow furiously in order to drive it headlong into Rashát. To complete the deception, the central portion of Terrington's force, -consisting of the Sikhs and Bakót levies in charge of the transport, +consisting of the Sikhs and Bakót levies in charge of the transport, were to remain concealed and not to approach the Gul till the Khan's intentions became apparent; and the Guides forming the rearguard had orders so to delay pursuit along the river road from Sar that the @@ -2314,7 +2293,7 @@ for water." "I can't imagine such a condition just now," she answered. -"You'll be able to when you've crossed the Palári," said Terrington +"You'll be able to when you've crossed the Palári," said Terrington quietly. She twisted her chair sideways, put one hand above the other across the @@ -2646,7 +2625,7 @@ to the sentry who strode beside her, and was gone. The bearers moved off at a quick amble, and when they halted she knew she was amongst men. The night was still of an impenetrable black and she could see nothing between her curtains, but she heard in the silence the shuffle -of feet, and the grunted "Huh!" of the Bakót men as they fell in half +of feet, and the grunted "Huh!" of the Bakót men as they fell in half awake and hitched up their accoutrements. Then with a whisper the jampanis moved on, and to the swinging to and @@ -2735,7 +2714,7 @@ intend to be kept out of danger." the danger of your being seen." His eyes took in her troubled face and his manner changed suddenly to a reasoning gentleness. "You see the fight's right away over there, beyond the Gul. Mir Khan's pushing -Walcot back on Rashát, and we hope he thinks he's got us all. We're +Walcot back on Rashát, and we hope he thinks he's got us all. We're hiding here, in case he sends any one to look for us along the road to Sar, and the game would be up if he spotted us." @@ -2942,7 +2921,7 @@ the weaker side." He stopped, and looked out again over the Bewal valley, where the enemy's forces could be seen dividing in the form of a Y, one arm -leading towards the Sorágh Gul and the other towards the entrance of +leading towards the Sorágh Gul and the other towards the entrance of the Sar defile, where Dore was lying. "He's coming this way?" she suggested. @@ -3029,7 +3008,7 @@ packed mass in the valley. The result should have been disastrous to the attackers had the shooting been even fairly accurate, which unfortunately it was not. -The Dogras included a very small proportion of marksmen, and the Bakót +The Dogras included a very small proportion of marksmen, and the Bakót men had not outlived their remembrance of the matchlock, and probably fired over the heads of everything. Some score of the scouts were turned over, and a few men and horses fell in the main body, chiefly to @@ -3114,7 +3093,7 @@ Dore's ridge dashed for the gap without an attempt at resistance, and those in front, seeing their supports in flight, fell back, firing wildly in both directions. -The Bakót men finding the foe in retreat began to shoot with more +The Bakót men finding the foe in retreat began to shoot with more effect, but Terrington, trusting rather to their knives for slaughter and feeling that the decisive moment was come, signalled to the Guides, still three miles away, to press forward, and ordered a general advance. @@ -3125,7 +3104,7 @@ this way and that in frenzied efforts to escape like a frightened flock of sheep, and crying out for mercy from the bayonets that pierced them from behind. The mercy meted out to them was the mercy of the Durbar--a swift end, and the scorn of born fighters in their ears; and, -as the Bakót levies descended with their crooked knives upon the +as the Bakót levies descended with their crooked knives upon the scurrying flanks, the Saris flung away their arms and fought with each other to escape the avengers. @@ -3148,7 +3127,7 @@ in spite of his advantage, the greatness of the task in front of him. Mir Khan, realizing from the sound of battle in the defile the trick which had been played him, was throwing forward every man he could spare to shut Terrington within it till he could extricate the force -which Walcot had skilfully drawn after him up the road to Rashát. +which Walcot had skilfully drawn after him up the road to Rashát. Terrington gathered at a glance that the disorder which the flight of the panic-stricken Saris was creating in the ranks of the @@ -3163,7 +3142,7 @@ Dore's men on the south of the road an opening to descend from the ridge and crumple the broken flank back upon the centre. So soon as he saw that the Sikhs were in motion he pushed the Dogras forward in the centre to maintain touch with them, and cover the egress of his -transport from the defile, taking the Bakót men along himself to +transport from the defile, taking the Bakót men along himself to prevent an enveloping movement on the other flank. This, the extreme right, was the weak point in his advance, since he had not sufficient men for an extension to gain the support of the hill-side, and the @@ -3178,7 +3157,7 @@ of the valley, while he himself advanced against Terrington in front. Sending word to the half of Dore's force, which still lined the ridge on the north of the gap, to get still higher up the hill and threaten in turn to outflank the enemy's flankers, Terrington set himself to -hold the half-trained Bakót levies in a position which would have tried +hold the half-trained Bakót levies in a position which would have tried the morale of the best disciplined troops. In this, without the special help of Heaven, he certainly would not @@ -3239,7 +3218,7 @@ But the day was too old for half measures. With a faith in reinforcements and a strong front, Terrington signalled Afzul Singh, who had, despite his forty-five years, outpaced on foot the youngest of his men, to keep his right shoulder up, thus ignoring the enemy's left -and bringing the Guides through the broken Bakót men on the main road. +and bringing the Guides through the broken Bakót men on the main road. Then, as the panting line came up to him, Terrington put himself in front of it and charged straight at Mir Khan's centre. @@ -3261,10 +3240,10 @@ defeat of the centre, and pressed it hotly down the hill. He only carried the pressure far enough to clear the road, and, as soon as the second company of the Guides appeared in the gap to form his rear-guard a general movement began across the valley towards the -Sorágh Gul; the Sikhs, Dogras and half a company of the Guides covering +Sorágh Gul; the Sikhs, Dogras and half a company of the Guides covering the transport on the south side, the second company of the Guides, breathless but athirst for battle, holding the road behind it, and the -Bakót men still running like hounds over the great shale slopes on the +Bakót men still running like hounds over the great shale slopes on the north hacking down the flying Saris with their knives or shooting them like rabbits at a dozen yards. @@ -3275,7 +3254,7 @@ Mir Khan's defeat had reached their ears. The Gul was a ravine with sides almost precipitous and close upon two hundred feet in depth, with a torrent raging over its rocks which could only be forded at one place. -Walcot, reinforced by Freddy Gale with the garrison of Rashát had +Walcot, reinforced by Freddy Gale with the garrison of Rashát had turned upon his pursuers, who reached in their flight one side of the Gul as Terrington's force appeared on the other. @@ -3316,7 +3295,7 @@ flesh-wound in the temple. XI After a brief halt for a meal, Terrington sent on the Dogras to convoy -the wounded to Rashát, the Bakót levies following at midnight with the +the wounded to Rashát, the Bakót levies following at midnight with the transport. He would rely only on his tried fighters for the long rearguard action which would begin on the morrow, and only end beyond the Paldri. @@ -3324,12 +3303,12 @@ the Paldri. But though the struggle of the next few days would mean hardship for all and death to many, the worst was over with that day's ordeal, on which had hung the safety of the entire force. Had Terrington been -beaten, every man with him would have been massacred, Rashát would have +beaten, every man with him would have been massacred, Rashát would have fallen within a month, and his name held up to the scorn of the years to come as of one who had lacked the courage to stand to his post. Yet his victory had been, under Heaven, but an accident. He knew that well enough. That fight, the most sanguine for its size in Indian history, -which has coloured the name as it dyed the water of Rashát river, would +which has coloured the name as it dyed the water of Rashát river, would have been lost but for the arrival at its crisis of men on whose coming he had no right to count. It was won indeed, won in its overwhelming effectiveness by his subtlety, his daring tactics, his personal valour, @@ -3376,11 +3355,11 @@ and looked smiling into her eyes. The enemy had been so roughly handled that Mir Khan could not persuade his men on the morrow to a fresh attack across such an obstacle as the Gul, and Terrington after holding it till nightfall fell back upon -Rashát. +Rashát. But before he reached it the Saris were again upon his heels like a pack of famished wolves, ravenous for blood. During the three days' -march to the foot of the Palári, the fighting never ceased night or +march to the foot of the Palári, the fighting never ceased night or day. In the dark it dwindled to the buzz or the slap of the sniper's bullet, varied by an attempt to rush a picket; doing only occasional damage but keeping the whole camp awake, and causing a suppression of @@ -3414,7 +3393,7 @@ death in its piercing cold; but beyond was life and wife and honour and reward. The sight of the snow drove Mir Khan to more desperate means, for, -without some critical success, beyond the Palári he dared not go, since +without some critical success, beyond the Palári he dared not go, since his opponents might be able to count on reinforcement, and the pass close behind him. @@ -3493,7 +3472,7 @@ her own ailings, but insisted upon getting out to rub the hands of the frozen, till Clones, seeing she was likely to faint from fatigue, put her back in the doolie. -On that night they camped below the Palári, and the next day it was +On that night they camped below the Palári, and the next day it was crossed by the entire force. But though the wind spared them, that day was the most trying of the @@ -3738,7 +3717,7 @@ Press of England, and the tardy honours, are they not written in the book of the Rulers of India, and in the heart of a people that does not forget? -But with his crossing of the Palári, Terrington's achievement ceases. +But with his crossing of the Palári, Terrington's achievement ceases. The rest was mere marching. Thanks, indeed, to his diplomacy it was mere marching, and that not a sword was drawn against him on the road home. But he thought little of such success; he had a natural @@ -4154,7 +4133,7 @@ a hesitating persuasiveness which made dissent seem brutal; the dream of an ethereal alliance to which the man should bring a life, and the woman a use for it. -Terence listened stupefied as the naïve unsteady voice made out its +Terence listened stupefied as the naïve unsteady voice made out its astounding offer. She had gathered somehow his desire for such a thing; the magnifying power of her vanity must have revealed it in all he did and said. And her abysmal lack of humour concealed its @@ -6236,7 +6215,7 @@ seemed to deprecate hurry, and he was aware that the man who knew not how to wait came only to the things he had not wanted. As he doubted what to do, he remembered vividly where he was. While he -loitered, under an apricot twilight the Váczi-utcza was becoming +loitered, under an apricot twilight the Váczi-utcza was becoming silvered with its thousand lamps. At that hour the brilliant merry little street would be filling, @@ -6256,7 +6235,7 @@ pleasure the anticipation brought. It was the first letter he had received from her, and the first of such a kind that had ever come to him from any woman. He found it in the big busy building behind the Laktanya, and, slipping it into his pocket, turned back to the gay -Váczi-utcza, already filled with a piercing ineffectual whiteness under +Váczi-utcza, already filled with a piercing ineffectual whiteness under the clear rose and amethyst of the evening sky. There, with a green tumbler before him, in a kavehaz much patronized of @@ -6584,7 +6563,7 @@ good-night to his wife. VI He went downstairs, and out on to the quay, turning southward along the -river towards the Fövámház. +river towards the Fövámház. For a foreigner he knew Pest well, but his knowledge only led him now by its loneliest avenue. He stood for a long while, his back to the @@ -8262,363 +8241,4 @@ LONDON: WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED. 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