Part 25 (1/2)
Next he felt a great rush of air, and after that the roar of flah he could feel no heat yet-that he wondered whether he was to be burned alive
”Is it well alight?” asked Yasmini
”Yes!” said a maid whose teeth chattered
”Good! Presently the fools will coe Thus none athered up and carried by frightened women-he could feel theht the shout of a crowd that had seen flames Then he was thrown face doard on the floor of soe and driven away
He lost all sense of direction after a h reckoning he was driven through the streets for about nine e stopped, and he was carried out again, up almost endless stairs, across a floor that seemed yet more endless, and thrown into a corner
He heard a door slaers, that had never once ceased working, tore a corner of the sheet loose
In another minute he was free
He threw the sheet fro his eyes to darkness Presently, not far froure of another ers He drew the dagger out of his hair and cut the h!” he exclaiht thee here?”
”Woe!”
”When?”
”Even now!”
”Where is that Afridi?”
”Dead, sahib!”
”How?”
”She brought us water in a brass vessel, saying it was by thy orders, sahib She cut us loose and gave hiave me to drink the Afridi attacked her, and I slew hi his throat out-thus! While the life yet fluttered in him they threw a sheet over ain
”Who made thee prisoner in the first place?”
”Hillmen, sahib, at the orders of the Afridi who is now dead Theyme the knives they would use But she ca the Afridi fast to me After that I heard the sahib's voice, and then this happened That is all, sahib”
”Well!” said Ranjoor Singh And for the third time his trooper saw fit to salute him
Who shall be trusted to carry ive ground be he-swifter to thrust- Instant,-yet wary o' danger!
Hand without craftiness, eye without lust, Lip without flattery! Such an one must Prove yet his worthiness-yet earn er!) First let me lead him alone, and apart; There let me feel of his pulse and his heart!