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The characters, dialogue, and incidents depicted are a product of the author ’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely  \ncoincidental.  \nPublished by  \nSoho Press, Inc.  \n853 Broadway New York, NY 10003  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Massey, Sujata, author.  \nThe Satapur moonstone / Sujata Massey.  \nISBN 978-1-61695-909-8  \neISBN 978-1-61695-910-4  \nI. Title.  \nPS3563 .A79965 S28 2019 81’/ .54—dc23 2018046843 Map illustration © Philip Schwartzberg Interior design by Janine Agro, Soho Press, Inc.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nFor Tony  \n1  \nTHE RIDING RING  \nPerveen Mistry sighed, adjusting her hat on her sweating brow. It was  \nsix-thirty in the morning and already eighty-two degrees. Cantering around  \nthe riding ring at the Royal Western India Turf Club, never quite keeping up with her friend Alice, was vigorous exercise.  \nAlice Hobson-Jones was cantering on a large bay, Kumar, who had been born from racing stock. He’d wound up as an exercise horse because his stature was a few hands too short for the racetrack. Still, Kumar was a prince of a horse, and since Alice was almost six feet tall, their union dominated the ring.  \nPerveen, five feet three inches, had been delighted to be assigned a female pony, which she had assumed would be gentler. Dolly was so short Perveen had been able to swing herself over the saddle without being propped up by the grooms, an awkward ritual she’d had to repeat most of the times she’d ridden. However, the little horse was hardly amenable to the directions Perveen tapped out with her feet. She was no horsewoman, and it seemed that Dolly sensed it.  \nStill, this horseback ride was less frightening than the times Perveen had ridden huge animals during house-party weekends Alice had brought her to in England. Now the shoe was on the other foot. Perveen had come home to practice law in Bombay, and Alice was on an extended visit trying to find a teaching position. In a city where the Mistrys had resided for almost 350 years, Perveen’s family connections opened doors, and it looked likely that Alice would be hired as a lecturer in mathematics at Wilson College.  \nAlice had campaigned hard to get Perveen to awaken early enough to ride at six o’clock three times that week. At the outset, it had seemed like a pleasant idea. The rains had stopped, making the city navigable, although asthe sun rose, it became a hot and windy place again.  \nAs Perveen came around the ring, she noticed Alice’s father, Sir David Hobson-Jones, standing at the edge. He was a Western India Turf Club trustee, despite the fact that he’d been in Bombay for only two years. That was the kind of thing that happened when one was part of the governor ’s ring of top three councillors.  \nSir David smiled, making a sweeping gesture with his hand. Perveen trotted around the ring, concentrating on keeping her back straight. As she passed Sir David, he made the same gesture, only more vigorously.  \nHe was calling her over.  \nShe felt her stomach sink. Perhaps he’d come to say someone in the club had complained about an Indian rider; she was the only one she’d seen.  \nPerveen hated to kick the filly, but this was the way she’d been taught to make horses move. Dolly ignored her. It was not until Perveen kicked a few more times that the horse reluctantly walked from the ring into the area near the gate where grooms waited to assist. A scrawny boy held the horse while she half-fell off. 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