59/71 "Ye have called me traitor behind my back, yet to my face ye have obeyed me these weeks past. Is that not shameful? Below is the plunder ye have yearned for, and here stand I, between it and you!" "We have yearned for no such plunder as that!" said Gooja Singh, for the men would have answered unless he did, and he, too, was minded to make his bid for the ascendency. "'No carrion for me!' said the jackal. 'I only eat what a tiger killed!'" He folded his arms and stood quite patiently. |