Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-10
THE BURIED BUNGALOW.

/ ing up my horse close to the dense milk
/ thorn hedge that shut in Mr. Warrens
/ pretty house and its garden, gay with
/ flowers, from the tea plantations, tho
1 green valley, the upland pastures and tho
/ dazzling peaks of the lIimalayas soaring
overhead. There, ON fragment of rock,
stood the well known, tall form of the
planter himself, angrily confronting
motley mob of natives-some tawny,
some yellow skinned, and few nearly
black. These, although they had flung
aside hoe and spade, | knew to be the
coolies employed at the prosperous hill
station, where such a scene of confusion
| had been hitherto unknown.
1.-The scouudrels are going to leave me
that's all" said Mr. Warren. curtly.
And at that instant there stepped for
ward in advance of the rest gaunt
Iibetan clad in sheepskins, who, Ger
enormously, with perfect gravity, placed
on the ground a fragment of wheaton
cake, a handful of salt and lota, or
brass drinking cup, nearly filled with
CONS, from silver rupees to copper
pice. Then, pointing with a peeled
willow wand that he held in his hand to
the food and the money thrice, he
snapped in twain the slender stock, and
Nitai bSiiL anu GON iitslJl IlllCl 6LOOu
motionless. as though waiting to be ques-
toned.
"What mummery is this?" asked |, in
an undertone. My intended father-in-
law, who knew the people and the coun-
try better than did shook his head
at means mischief" he whispered.
Something has terrified the supersti-
tious ours; and seel They renounce my
bread and salt, return the advance of
wages, and break the wand in token
that they are my men no more You
mean he added, harshly, in the Ben
gall dialect, TO desert me, then, Han
/ G0rain'
THE Sahib Warren is a good MASTER"
replied the Iibetan, in the same Ian
! guage. IF We go. it is because the evil
/ eye has looked upon this threshold, and
/ the voice that never Hes has laid curse
/ on y irmi Sou and all that dwell there"
The man spoke slowly and with some
/ difficulty, stch rs bcscts those who use IA
foreign tongue impcrfcctly mastcrcd
but he had uttered his brief speech with
| emphasis, aud with a certain dignity of
bearing. Behind him stood the 'libetans
and hill sturdy fellows on whom
devolyed the rough work of trenching
and dyke building, while a little way off
| clustered the dusky coolies from India
| proper, their lips frightened over their
shining teeth, and in attitudes expressive
I of the most abjcct servility. Clearly
! there was no stimulus short of physical
{ fear which would have ncrved these
crouchlnS creatures to disohey the Burra
/ Sahib, or owner OF the plantation, whose
/ lightest word had been law to his meek
4 subordinatcs.
"lf the Sahib will harllen to the coun-
sci of the poor, said the spokesman after
/ a pause, "hc and his viii hasten away
/ before ---
But here Mr.. Warren lost patience, and
Interrupted the orator, roundly rebuliing
] the whole gang as a pack of craven
hounds, frightened at their own shad-
! ows, and without spark of manliness
/ to redeem them. Were it worth while,
he said, he could gallop over to the near
+ est magistrate and enforce the perform
/ ance OF the contract under pain Of flog,
/ ging and imprisonment, Gut he wanted
/ no half hearts N his service, SO they
+ might go "lou hear me!' he thun-
/ dercd, sllencing Han Gorain's fresh of-
+ fort to speak, and the men skunk away
+ cowed, us Orlcntals usually are by this
/ undOubtng assertion of authority.
/ The planter recovered his temper as
soon rs the rccusants had departed, and
laid his broad hand on my shoulder, say
. ing, with a jolly laugh, IL lesson, George,
my boy, rs to The thurns that will lie in
your path whom Won and Iflifb live here
/ in nv stead. ms hone You'll do. nffer the
catherine in of The neyt toa rron md
Set 10 10 feather vour most nv her mother
/ and have done, thonrht hotter thinrs
i too, Of The 0yerspqr-tEat Ham Gorain,
I who. befor, some hoathen Lorie scared
/ him, was a sArcUd and rpliable servant
/ But never ulinal Como in. Musrravc
come in! The parson from Nvuce Tlai il
+ here already. and you must help the bride
eXpeetant to entertain him until dinner
time
i Pretty Edith, who was on the morrow
I to become my wife. smiled away any I'M
comfortable feelings which The conduct
/ of Han Gorain and his companions had
4 leIt behind; and neither sho nor her
parents, nor Mr. Edwards, the clergy
man-who had come over expressly to
perform the marriage ceremony seemed
to attach any importance to the panic
among the coolies.
1T was something" explained Mr..
/ Warren, "Qbout Alp paGh, the big
mountain 1t the foot Of which we live:
! but have been planter here too long
+ to care for the tat,le of coolies. They
/ are like children Who tel Of the nursery