But when your eyes have dwelt upon these wonders you will have seen what there is of movement and life about the shores of those sleeping waters.

It was in accordance with the fitness of things that the city and its lake should be three miles from the railway station and quite invisible to the traveller.

The hotel however and the Residency were near to the station, and it was the Residency which had brought Thresk out of the crowds and tumult of Bombay.

He put up at the hotel and enclosing Repton's introduction in a covering letter sent it by his bearer down the road.

Then he waited; and no answer came.
Finally he asked if his bearer had returned.