Carlyon Monologue from Carlyon Sahib: A Drama in Four Acts

From Carlyon Sahib: A Drama in Four Acts by Gilbert Murray

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(Harshly.) I wanted the tribes who were crowding round us to disperse. And I knew that cholera would disperse them. (VERA: Do you mean that you deliberately----?) Don't trouble about the details. My servant Selim did most of it. There was always a case or two of cholera in Bhojal, and it's not hard to make such things spread if you want to. (VERA: I don't understand. What did you do?) I poisoned the well. It only took ten days and the tribes began to disperse. It was a regular panic. So we took our opportunity and cut our way back to Rajpoor. I only lost two men; and Selim for a third. (Rising, with a sigh of relief.) Then the war broke out.

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