. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . -cut but massive features,with intelligent eyes, and an expression in them of deepdespair, yet of resignation: it was impossible to associatesuch a man with violence or depravity. A few hurriedwords passed between us: I apologising for my intrusion,and striving to excuse it—he, with the tears streamingdown his face, trying to maintain a calm appearance,while in broken words he said, I never thought to see aSahebs face again. We seemed to take to each otherat once. With all the grace and dignit
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . -cut but massive features,with intelligent eyes, and an expression in them of deepdespair, yet of resignation: it was impossible to associatesuch a man with violence or depravity. A few hurriedwords passed between us: I apologising for my intrusion,and striving to excuse it—he, with the tears streamingdown his face, trying to maintain a calm appearance,while in broken words he said, I never thought to see aSahebs face again. We seemed to take to each otherat once. With all the grace and dignity which distinguisha well-born Mahommedan, he asked me into his house,into a handsomely furnished room, fitted as a library,where for nearly two hours we discussed his past historyand most unfortunate position. I told him that his brotherwas the most intimate native friend I possessed—thatI had made it my business to master all the detailsof the infamous conspiracy of which he had been avictim, in the hopes of being able by some means orother to reach the authors of it. I recounted to him the. rt i^-i ^ (1) o a r! ^ <o w UJ L-l o 2; 1) o 1 •^ < ri (—1 r^ P!i .U. o r-i ..-< CJ T o ABDUL FARREED PARTS WITH KHATIZA. 167 hideous case of Vinayek Deo, the would-be parricide,which I have pubHshed separately, ^ and which I had justbefore disposed of I impressed upon him the greatimportance, for the sake of his family, of his coming outagain into the world and showing his enemies that theyhad not utterly broken him down; but it was all of noavail, so far as his own personal feeling was persisted that he was a broken-hearted man, hopelesslydisgraced in the eyes of the world, and all he desired wasto be permitted to die in peace. I then gradually broughtthe conversation to the question of the girl Khatiza, toldhim what his enemies were insinuating about her and him,and suggested that the one way to stop these attacks, and,above all, to protect her fair fame,
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