"
When the Captain had finished interpreting this the Resident passed it
to the decoit, saying: "This will protect you from the British. You
are now bound to the British; and I want you to bring me any papers
that may have been found upon the two soldiers. Bring here this woman,
the Gulab, if you can find her. Go now."
When Ajeet, with a deep salaam, had gone from the room Hodson threw
himself back in his chair wearily and sighed. Then he said: "A woman!
the jamadar was lying--all that stuff about Nana Sahib. There's been
some deviltry; they've used this woman to trap the messengers; that's
India. It's the papers they were after; they must have known they were
coming; and they've hidden the woman. We've got to lay hands upon her,
Captain--she's the key-note."
CHAPTER XV
Barlow had waited until the decoit would have gone before showing the
papers that were in his pocket because it was an advantage that the
enemy should think them lost. He was checked now as he put a hand in
his pocket to produce them by the entrance of Elizabeth, and he fancied
there was a sneer on her thin lips.
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