Raj was twenty months old when he died. Arthur Pemberton found him at noon, shot at dawn outside the fort gate, while Arthur slept in his cot behind a canvas screen that smelled of mildew and carda...
Arthur carried Raj's body to the latrines behind the fort and dug a grave with a tin spade. He did not dig beneath the honor of the fort. He did not dig where anyone would look. He dug where no one would look, behind the latrines, in the dirt that smelled of carbolic soap and urine, and he laid Raj down in it the way a man lays down a letter he will never send. He stood over the grave for an...
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