You can trust them
with missions, and send them where you choose. From their fathers'
lips they have learnt all about places and roads; they can decoy
Feringhee travelers, the Company's servants or soldiers, into
quiet places, and slay them. They can creep into compounds and into
houses, and choose their victims from the sleepers. You can trust
them, Rajah, for they have learned to hate, and each in his way
will, when the times comes, aid to stir up men to rise. The past
had almost become a dream, but I have roused it into life again,
and upon the descendants of the stranglers throughout India you
can count surely."
"You have not mentioned my name?" the Rajah said suddenly, looking
closely at the man as he put the question.
"Assuredly not, your highness; I have simply said deliverance is
at hand; the hour foretold for the end of the Raj of the men from
beyond the sea will soon strike, and they will disappear from the
land like fallen leaves; then will the glory of Kali return, then
again will the brotherhood take to the road and gather in victims.
I can promise that every one of those whose fathers or grandfathers
or other kin died by the hand of the Feringhee, or suffered in his
prisons, will do his share of the good work, and be ready to obey
to the death the orders which will reach him."
"It is good," the Rajah said; "you and your brethren will have a
rich harvest of victims, and the sacred cord need never be idle.
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