But each day as the trains of men came, spilling their
baskets, the great earthworks grew and their height mounted. Day
after day the Rajputs rode forth and slew; and as they slew it
seemed that all the teeming millions of the earth came forth to
take the places of the slain. And the Rajputs fell also, and
under the pennons the thundering forces returned daily, thinned
of their best.
(A hi! that Evil rules the world as God!)
And still the earth grew up to the heights, and the protection of
the hills was slowly withdrawn from Chitor, for on the heights
they made they set their engines of war.
Then in a red dawn that great saint Narayan came to the Queen,
where she watched by her window, and spoke.
"0 great lady, I have dreamed a fearful dream. Nay, rather have I
seen a vision."
With her face set like a sword, the Queen said,-
"Say on."
"In a light red like blood, I waked, and beside me stood the
Mother, - Durga, - awful to see, with a girdle of heads about her
middle; and the drops fell thick and slow from That which she
held in her hand, and in the other was her sickle of Doom.
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