I was interested then; I am all the more interested now, for I have just been appointed to Peshawur." He spoke in a voice which was grave--so grave that Colonel Dewes looked quickly towards him.
"Do you think there will be trouble up there in Chiltistan ?" he asked.
The Deputy-Commissioner, who was now Chief Commissioner, smiled wearily.
"There is always trouble up there in Chiltistan," he said.

"That I know.
What I think is this--Shere Ali should have gone to the Mayo College at Ajmere.

That would have been a compromise which would have satisfied his father and done him no harm.

But since he didn't--since he went to Eton, and to Oxford, and ran loose in London for a year or two--why, I think he is right." "How do you mean--right ?" asked the Colonel.
"I mean that the sooner Linforth is fetched out to India and sent up to Chiltistan, the better it will be," said the Commissioner..