Is it desired that I should summon him ?" "Operation serious ?" asked Grim, and neither man smiled.

It was perfect acting.
"Very, sahib.

He removes the half of a sepoy's liver." "Uh! Couldn't think of interrupting him.

Too bad! Lead the way." But we didn't enter the ward until Narayan Singh and an orderly had placed two screens around number nineteen cot, in the way they do when a man is dying, and had placed three chairs at the bedside contrary to the regulations printed on the wall.

Then Narayan Singh stood on guard outside the screens, but didn't miss much of the conversation, I believe.
The man in bed was wounded badly, but not fatally, and though his eyes blazed with fever he seemed to have some of his wits about him.