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Chapter 1-

28 December 2023

PRELUDE TO HOME LEAVE A Sack of Tea Leaf SHOTGUN under one arm setever it his heels, two plump thukor partides dangling from his gune belt Henry Winton began the steep climb up the bridli pith pleas

Chapter 2-

28 December 2023

All the Nines, Ninety-Nine!" SILENT Hill, Henry Winton's factory garden, was forty-two miles from Chinnar the headquarters of the tea district, torty-two miles by one of Assam's tea-gaiden roads whi

Chapter 3-

28 December 2023

"The Empire is a hellish big thing' A5 Henty parked his cat. Damian, Sir Jeffrey's number one boy, san up to him, salaamed, and began taking his things out. "Buza sahib is out on the lawn, ur,' he s

Chapter 4-

Remember Your Party Manners IT was the president of the highlands Club who decided when to hold the annual Chinnar Werk, depending on which time was best suited to the more important among the guests

Chapter 5-

And then there was Darkness THERE were two moons, and they were both full; one, cold and lustreless and hidden behind the trees, the other, an enormous. sickly yellow orh which had just been switche

Chapter 6-

Revengeful God THE proprieties, such as they were, were scrupulously attended to. Henry Winton received Ruby Miranda's application for the post of headmistress of the school at Silent Hill within two

Chapter 7-

Kistulal was always grinning THEY had driven down from Silent Hill, Henry and his shikart, starting at dawn as planned Even so, it was late in the evening when they got into Lamlung Cockburn had a ho

Chapter 8-

Never Mind the Brandy THEY had accepted Henry's story of the way Kistulal had met his death. Sudden, magnanimous as ever, had congratulated Henry on his resolve to go after the rogue if and when it r

Chapter 9-

30 December 2023

Off for the Holidays HAVE you put out the wine glasses? Henry asked the head boy Jee, sahib And the chocolates?" Jee, sahib Then bring me another whisky-and soda He sat in front of the sitting-room

Chapter 10-

30 December 2023

The Thin Line AFTERWARDS, Henry could never think of that interview with Sudden without experiencing a hot, futile sage Sudden was like a rock, quite impervious to reasoning: as always. Sudden was al

Chapter 11-

30 December 2023

'Chale jao; Chale jao!" HENRY slept soundly that night. When he woke, the glow of elation, of being equal to the situation, was still with him. At last he was coming to grips with what had so far bee

Chapter 12-

1 January 2024

The Room with a View " THIS is a wonderful room,' said Sudden appreciatively. 'I've just had it done up.' Henry told him. Where did you get the curtains?" 'Bought them in Calcutta. Handloom stuff.

Chapter 13-

1 January 2024

The Brindian Company at War THE war came to the tea district, but slow ly, almost apologetically. 2. though reluctant to disturb the serenity of the hills, making itself felt only in odd pun pricks s

Chapter 14-

1 January 2024

A Corner in a Market AT last Jean was coming. Henry Winton was waiting for her on the platform at Tinapur railway station. The agony of separation, the anxiety of waiting for a ship in wartime were f

Chapter 15-

Mating Call THEY did not go up Wallach's Folly the next day. They were having tea on the lawn at the side of the bungalow when Henry told her they could not go. Jean had handed him his second cup of

Chapter 16-

"Living in the Sunlight" HENRY ate his breakfast in silence. first glancing through the day-old Calcutta Statesman, and then a four-weeks-old Times, stack- ing the pages neatly on the table kept by h

Chapter 17-

A Man and His Dog SUDDEN left early the next morning, and as soon as his car had gone out of the drive Henry packed up his shotgun and game-belt. whistled to Hernian, and went off for a walk. He had

Chapter 18-

We don't grow morals AT the end of the second week in January, Henry had had no reply to his request to join the army, and on Saturday he decided to go to Chinnar and tackle Sudden again. Jean had sh

Chapter 19-

A Toast to the Jungle Night HENRY never ceased to marvel at the care and thought which had gone into the building of the game cottage. The tree on which it was built was a wild fig tree- a softwood v

Chapter 20-

'This is London Calling!' He felt shaken and bruised, and there was a long red and blue welt on his left forearm, but what he did not like was the numb ness in his right ankle. He was trying to get u

Chapter 21-

Two Minutes in the Gun-room It had been too easy. No murder could have been easier; no murder more toolproof. The elephant god had obliged, the victim himself had no doubt assisted considerably by s

Chapter 22-