THE STORY OF SONNY SAHIB

By MRS. EVERARD COTES

(SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN)

1894






CHAPTER I





'Ayah,' the doctor-sahib said in the vernacular, standing beside
the bed, 'the fever of the mistress is like fire. Without doubt
it cannot go on thus, but all that is in your hand to do you have
done. It is necessary now only to be very watchful. And it will
be to dress the mistress, and to make everything ready for a
journey. Two hours later all the sahib-folk go from this place in
boats, by the river, to Allahabad. I will send an ox-cart to take
the mistress and the baby and you to the bathing ghat.'

'Jeldi karo!' he added, which meant 'Quickly do!'--a thing people
say a great many times a day in India.