The Sirdar's Oath: A Tale of the North-West Frontier
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Mitford Bertram. The Sirdar's Oath: A Tale of the North-West Frontier
Chapter One “The Stranger within thy Gates.”
Chapter Two. The Day After
Chapter Three “Above Rubies.”
Chapter Four. A Timely Reconsideration
Chapter Five. Murad Afzul, Terror
Chapter Six. The Victim
Chapter Seven. A Surprise
Chapter Eight. The Mark of Murad Afzul
Chapter Nine. A Legacy of Vengeance
Chapter Ten. The Syyed’s Tangi
Chapter Eleven. Concerning the Occult
Chapter Twelve. A Strange Midnight Ramble
Chapter Thirteen. Of the Dak – and Mehrab Khan
Chapter Fourteen. A Visit – and its Sequel
Chapter Fifteen “A Land of Surprises.”
Chapter Sixteen. How Tarleton Yielded
Chapter Seventeen “Better Than Nothing.”
Chapter Eighteen. In the Mist
Chapter Nineteen. In Strange Quarters
Chapter Twenty. The Mullah Again
Chapter Twenty One. Left Alone
Chapter Twenty Two. At Mazaran
Chapter Twenty Three. Of the Sirdar’s Oath
Chapter Twenty Four. On the Grave’s Dark Brink
Chapter Twenty Five. De Talione
Chapter Twenty Six. A Deed of Gift
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Raynier awoke in his club chambers the next morning, feeling, as he put it to himself, exceedingly cheap.
When we say awoke, rather are we expressing a recurring process which had continued throughout the few remaining night hours since, by force of circumstances and the swaying of the crowd, he had become separated from his companions, and had wisely found his way straight to bed instead of to the Peculiar Club. On this at any rate he congratulated himself; and yet hardly any sleep had come his way. The howling of patriotic roysterers had continued until morning light, and, moreover, his head was buzzing – not by reason of last night’s revelry, for in such he never got out of hand, but an ugly lump on one side of his forehead, and a swelled eye, reminded him that it is hard to rescue a maltreated stranger from the brutality of a London mob, and emerge unscathed oneself.
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“Or the pawnbrokers,” said Grice – “for if it was captured by the enemy, why that honest fellow-countryman would lose no time in taking a bee-line for the nearest pawnshop with it. All that yelling must have been dry work.”
“But, I say, old chappie. What a juggins you were to give it him,” supplemented the other, sapiently.
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