Part 15 (1/2)
”Being elderly person of advancing years and much, adipose tissue, I a at a tis have been forced on o”
”Since I saw you outside the barrack gate?” deton
”Oh, yes Oh, certainly By all o, then, sir!” said Warrington, looking at his watch
”Then he isn't burned to death!” said Kirby, with
”Oh, no, sir! Positivelee not, sahib! The risaldar-?”
”Into the palm of my hand, sahib”
”Where-in what place-in what street-at whose house?”
”At nobody's house, sahib It was in the dark, and the dark is very big”
”Did he give it you at Yasmini's?”
”Oh, no, sahib! Positivelee not!”
”Where is he now?”
”Sahib, how should I knoho am but elderly person of no metaphysical attainave it to you?”
”Sahib, he threatened me!”
”Confound you, what did he say?”
”He said, 'Babuji, present this ring to Colonel Kirby sahib You will find him, babuji, where you will find hi hi to hih said, ”All will presently be e, babuji, or should you fail to find hient business, babuji, to open that belly of thine and see what is in it!' So, iven the ring and the iven it? I did not think of that! Moreover, I am unrewarded-I have no eton
”They, sahib”
”Who are they?” asked Kirby
”The ate the inside of my belly, sahib Oh, a belly is so sensitive! I am afraid!”
”Did he tell you who 'they' were?”
”No, sahib Had he done so, I would at once have sought police protection Not knowing na to police, ould laugh at hed, too; but she told me where is Colonel Kirby sahib”
Colonel Kirby becaht idea, his first since Yasmini had thrown her spell over him
”Could you find the way,” he asked, ”froave you that ring?”