You know that the gravel-drive opens up so as to form a broad stretch immediately in front of the house.

Just in the centre of this clear space there stood three men looking up at the house.
"The moon shone full upon them, glistening on their upturned eyeballs, and by its light I could see that they were swarthy-faced and black-haired, of a type that I was familiar with among the Sikhs and Afridis.

Two of them were thin, with eager, aesthetic countenances, while the third was kinglike and majestic, with a noble figure and flowing beard." "Ram Singh!" I ejaculated.
"What, you know of them ?" exclaimed Mordaunt in great surprise.

"You have met them ?" "I know of them.

They are Buddhist priests," I answered, "but go on." "They stood in a line," he continued, "sweeping their arms upwards and downwards, while their lips moved as if repeating some prayer or incantation.