Part 27 (2/2)
”This trooper, sahib--”
”My promise is for him as well”
”We accept, sahib! What is the duty?”
”First, write a note to Colonel Kirby-I'll see that it's delivered- asking hined to special duty Here's paper and a fountain pen”
”Why should all this be secret froh ”There is no wiser and no nacious on his juniors' account, I assure you! I can't i of you I've no time to listen to his protests Write, man, write!”
”Give h wrote by the light of a flickering oil la his trooper's shoulder for support He passed the finished note back to the general
”Now some token, please, Risaldar-Major, that Colonel Kirby will be sure to recognize-soed”
Ranjoor Singh pulled a ring froave me this,” he said si to a o now and give this letter to soain probably until all this is over Please do what Yasmini directs until you hear from me or can see for yourself that your task is finished Depend on h saluted, eneral answered his salute and left the roo frouise resuhboring streets until he had found his carriage He recognized, but was not recognized by, the risaldar on the box-seat of Colonel Kirby's shay
Teeth of a wolf on a whitened bone, What do the splinters say?
Scent of a saone, Where will he stand at bay?
Sparks in the whirl of a hurrying wind
Who was it laid the light?
Mischief, back of a woht?
CHAPTER XII
Black sht- Half-brothers, and although there were few stars visible, a watery moon looked out from between dark cloudracks and showed up the sht sienie ever drea out of a fisherhed, for she is fond of that sort of question that sets those near her thinking and disguises the trend of her own thoughts as utterly as if she had not any
”The geniethe one God of his Koran in a sententious effort to please Yasht be the God of the Rekis,” she suggested; and everybody chuckled, because Baluchis do not relish reference to their lax religious practise any more than they like to be called ”desert people” This man was a Rind Baluch of the Marri Hills, and proud of it; but pride is not always an asset at Yasmini's
They-and the police would have dearly loved to know exactly who ”they” were-stood clustered in Yasarden that can not be guessed at from the street There was not one of them who could have explained how they came to assemble all on that side of the room; the movement had seemed to evolve out of the infinite calculation that everybody takes for granted, and Mosle else to do about it
It did not occur to anybody to credit Yaseainst the after- uise was a joke to any practised eye-and all in the room were practised-it looked to the newcoed
He was dressed as a Mohaentleht angle to each other, and his shoulders had none of the grace that goes with good native breeding; they were proud enough, but the pride had been drilled in and cultivated It sat square And if a native gentleh the streets as this man walked, all the small boys of the bazaars would have followed hiht be