"What manner of a plan?
I await gold.

What are words ?" "A good plan," said Ranjoor Singh.
"And on the strength of an empty boast am I to eat bread and salt with you ?" the Kurd asked.
"If you wish to hear the plan," said Ranjoor Singh.

"To my enemy I tell nothing; however, let my friend but ask!" The Kurd thought a long time, but we facing him added no word to encourage or confuse him.

I saw that his curiosity increased the more the longer we were silent; yet I doubt whether his was greater than my own! Can the sahib guess what Ranjoor Singh's plan was?
Nay, that Kurd was no great fool.

He was in the dark.