"A favor, sahib!" He came and lay beside me with his chin on his hand.

"What is it ?" said he.
"The life of that Turk who trod the water into mud!" said I."Let me have the winding up of his career!" "Wait a while!" said he.

"Let the men watch.

Watch thou the men!" So I did watch the men, and I saw cold anger grow among them, like an anodyne, making them forget their own affairs.

I began to wonder how long Ranjoor Singh would dare let them lie there, unless perhaps he deliberately planned to stir them into uncontrol.