Part 32 (2/2)

Then they all went to the stair-head and watched and listened through the open door while a closed carriage was driven away in a great hurry Three maids and six men came up-stairs one after another, at intervals, to report the road all clear; the first carriage had not been followed, and there was nobody watching; another carriage waited Babu Sita Rae and stay there on the lookout

”Now bring hih

But Yasmini had anticipated that order

”They are in the carriage, on the seat,” she said

So the Ger his turban at once for the better one that he found waiting in there

”This perforrumbled babu Sita Rahly sensitive?”

But the Gerious sickness!” asserted Sita Ram with conviction

At the head of the stairs Ranjoor Singh and Yas into each other's eyes He looked into pools of laughter and lowing in his brown ones

”It will be for you now,” said Ranjoor Singh, ”to act with speed and all discretion I don't knoe are going to see, although I know it is artillery of so every trace of whatever it is, and of himself and o ahead”

”And trust me!” said Yasmini

The Sikh did not answer

”And trust me!” repeated Yash sahib, that we ht our quarrel to a finish later on What would the world be without enemies? You will not find artillery!”

”How do you know?”

”I have known for nearly two years what you will find there, my friend! Only I have not known exactly where to find it And yet soht that I have known that, too! Go, Ranjoor Singh You will be in danger Above all, do not try to force that German's hand too far until I co as the eneely that she laughed straight into his face ”If you suspect-if you can guess where we are going-send er walk into a watched lair?” she answered ”Go, talker!

Go and do things!”

So, swearing and dissatisfied, Ranjoor Singh went down and clie

”Which way?” he asked; and the Gerht on!” said the Gerht on out of Delhi!”

They were headed south, and driving very slowly, for to have driven fast would have been to draw attention to theh scarcely troubled to look about him, and Sita Ram fell into a doze, in spite of his protestations of fear The German was the only one of the party as at pains to keep a lookout, and he wasfollowed; over and over again he called on Ranjoor Singh to stop until a following carriage should overtake the to Old Delhi, where the ruins of old cities stand piled against one another in a tangled mass of verdure that is hardly penetrable except where the tracks wind in and out The shadow of the Kutb Minar was long when they drove past it, and it was dusk when the Gerh turned the horses in between two age-old trees and drew rein at a shattered te, and about a thousand parakeets flew off, shrilling for another roost But there was no other sign of life