We mountain Kurds are not afraid of Persians." "Which Kurds are to provide the escort ?" Ranjoor Singh asked him, and the Kurd shook his head.
"Nay," he said, "that none can tell.

It is not yet agreed.

There is small competition for the task.

There are better pickings here on the border, raiding now and then, and pocketing the gold of this Wassmuss between-whiles! Who wants the task of escorting a machine in a box to Khabul ?" "Nevertheless," said Ranjoor Singh, "I know of a leader and his men who will undertake the task." "Who, then ?" said the Kurd.
"I and my men!" said Ranjoor Singh; and I held my breath until I thought my lungs would burst.

"Persia!" thought I."Afghanistan!" thought I."And what beyond ?" "Ye are not Kurds," the chief answered, after he had considered a while.