"Should I make those good men more distrustful than they are?
Should I shoot Gooja Singh unless I am afraid of him ?" I said no more because I knew he was right.

If he should shoot Gooja Singh the troopers would ascribe it to nothing else than fear.

A British officer might do it and they would say, "Behold how he scorns to shirk responsibility!" Yet of Ranjoor Singh they would have said, "He fears us, and behold the butchery begins! Who shall be next ?" Nevertheless, had I stood in his shoes, I would have shot and buried Gooja Singh to forestall trouble.

I would have shot Gooja Singh and the Turk and Tugendheim all three with one volley.

And the Turk's forty men would have met a like fate at the first excuse.