Part 58 (1/2)

”Your Captain King has been too much trouble He has taken money from the Germans He adopted native dress

He called hiht in the Khyber Pass These men will say that he carried the head to Khinjan, and their word is true

I, Yasmini, saw He used the head for a passport to obtain ades invasion of India! He held up his brother's head before five thousand men and boasted of theof the Khyber Rifles he will be leading a jihad into India You would have better trusted eneral

”The body is buried Howtold hi did not answer The general waited

”I don't know, sir”

”Ask the Rangar,” Courtenay suggested

”Where is he?” asked King

”Caught hi down the Khyber on his black mare and arrested hied So that I can buy thewhistled softly to hih half-closed eyes

”Go in and talk to hi to go up the Khyber on that errand not for nothing He knew King and he knew the sy obeyed He went out of the room into a dark corridor and rapped on the door of the next rooht There was ato the sentry outside the door and he called anotherwalked into a roo and the door slammed shut behind him

He was in there an hour, and it never did transpire just what passed, for he can hold his tongue on any subject like a clao him one better Courtenay was placed under orders not to talk, so those who say they know exactly what happened in the roo and the tieneral, are not telling the truth

What is known is that finally the general hurried through the door and ejaculated, ”Well, I'ain The sentry (Punjabi Mussulman) has sworn to that over a dozen camp-fires since the day

And it is known, too, for the sentry has taken oath on it and has told the story so many times without much variation that no one who knows the er-it is known that when the door opened again King and the general walked out, with the Rangar between thear had no turban on, but carried it unwound in his hand And his golden hair fell nearly to his knees and changed his whole appearance And he eeping And he was not a Rangar at all, but she, and how anybody can ever have mistaken her for a man, even in man's clothes and with her skin darkened, was beyond the sentry's power to guess He for one, etc But nobody believed that part of his tale