But Ranjoor Singh had not finished yet.
"Then, on one point we are agreed," he said.

"We will make the most of that.

Let us salute our own loyalty to India, and the British and the Allies, with determination to give one another credit at least for that in future! Pre--sent arms!" So we presented arms, he kissing the hilt of his saber again; and it was not until three days afterward that I overheard one of the troopers saying that Gooja Singh had called attention to the fact of its being a German saber.

For the moment there was no more doubt among us; and if Gooja Singh had not begun to be so fearful lest Ranjoor Singh take vengeance on him there never would have been doubt again.

We felt warm, like men who had come in under cover from the cold.
It was growing dusk by that time, and Ranjoor Singh bade us at once to return to where the horses and Syrians waited in the hollow, he himself continuing to sit alone on the summit of the ridge, considering matters.