Now we want only money!" "Who was ever helped by impatience ?" asked Ranjoor Singh.
"Nay," said the Kurd, "we are a patient folk! We have waited eighteen days for sight of this gold for Wassmuss.

It should have been here fifteen days ago, so Wassmuss said, but we are willing to wait eighteen more.

Until it comes, none else shall pass!" I was watching Ranjoor Singh very closely indeed, and I saw that he saw daylight, as it were, through darkness.
"Yet no gold shall come," he answered, "until you and I shall have talked together, and shall have reached an agreement." "Agreement ?" said the Kurd.

"Ye have my word! Ride back and bid them bring their gold in safety and without fear!" "Without fear ?" said Ranjoor Singh.

"Then who are ye ?" "We," said the Kurd, "are the escort, to bring the gold in safety through the mountain passes." "So that he may divide it among others ?" asked Ranjoor Singh, and I saw the Kurd wince.