Part 30 (1/2)

”You should have credit for great secrecy,” ado I had heard nothing of any Geruessed at!” laughed the Gerh

A little beforecart passed under it At the farther side the driver stopped his oxen without orders, and Ranjoor Singh stepped out, looking quickly up and down the road There were people about, but none whoate, almost under the shadow of it, and so drab and dirty as to be almost unnoticeable, there was a little cotton-tented booth, with a stock of lemonade and sweetmeats, that did interest him He looked three tiled out of it and walked aithout a word

”Coot out of the cart, looking not so very one away

”Get in there!” The German slipped into the real owner's place So far as appearances went, he was a very passable sweeth proved co stick out of the gutter and took his stand near by, frowning as he saw a carriage he suspected to be Yasate and come to a stand at the roadside, fifty or sixty yards away

”If the officers should recognizenot to talk to him at all, ”I should be arrested at once, and shot later But the nize me, and you shall see what you shall see!”

Three sh drove theued shrilly from a distance, and one threw a stone at him, but finally they decided he was some new sort of plain-clothes ”constabeel,” and went away

One after another, several natives caer, a gruff as enough to send theuard, and the Gered tiger could not have outdone

All this while the bullock-cart in which they had co dreamily on his seat and the bullocks perfectly content to chew the cud At the sound of the hoofs behind hian to belabor and kick his animals; he seemed oblivious of another cart that came toward hiate

In less than sixty seconds all three carts were neatly interlocked, and their respective drivers were engaged in a war of words that beggared Babel

The advance-guard halted and added words to the torrent Colonel Kirby caught up the advance-guard and halted, too

”Does he look like a h; and the Gerle of a ood friend the risaldar-major

”You will note that he looks chastened!”

The Gerh ran out and helped with that long stick of his to straighten out the ain and the carts uard moved on, and Kirby followed Then, troop by troop, the whole of Outraan to wonder It seeh, although he ad at all He noted that there was aln for Germany

D Squadron caretfully, as men who e fro on their flank

But Ranjoor Singh stepped out into the road, and the right-end nized him Not a as said that the Gernition run from rank to rank and troop to troop, until the squadron knew to a h, and fro and a new air of ”noe'll see what comes of it!”

It was as evident, to his practised eye, that they were glad to have seen Ranjoor Singh, and looked forward to seeing hiain very shortly, as that they were in a mood for trouble, and he decided to believe the whole of what the Sikh had said on the strength of the obvious truth of part of it

”Watch now the supply train!” growled Ranjoor Singh, as the wagons began to rureater part of the regione away by train froioing into camp, but not more than that The spies whose duty it was to watch the railway sidings reported to soh beckoned him after a while, and they caons and gaze after the regih had suspected to be Yasain, and the h in an undertone, but the Ger the colonel and another officer talking together beside the road in the distance The shuttered carriage passed on, but stopped in the shadow of the gate