Don't you feel that your mind has broadened ?" "Tell me the use of a broad mind in Chiltistan," said Shere Ali.

And Colonel Dewes, who had last seen the valleys of that remote country more than twenty years before, was baffled by the challenge.
"To tell the truth, I am a little out of touch with Indian problems," he said.

"But it's surely good in every way that there should be a man up there who knows we have something in the way of an army.

When I was there, there was trouble which would have been quite prevented by knowledge of that kind." "Are you sure ?" said Shere Ali quietly; and the two men turned and went down from the roof of the stand.
The words which Dewes had just used rankled in Shere Ali's mind, quietly though he had received them.

Here was the one definite advantage of his education in England on which Dewes could lay his finger.