"Yes, there is one more consideration.

If anything out of the way should occur in this transaction with Baithopoor, I should want your assistance, if you will give it.

Would you mind ?" "Of course not.

Anything----" "In that case, if Ram Lal thinks you are wanted, he will send a swift messenger to you with a letter signed by me, in the Persian _shikast_--which you read .-- Will you come by the way he will direct you, if I send?
He will answer for your safety." "I will come," I said, though I thought it was rather rash of me, who am a cautious man, to trust my life in the hands of a shadowy person like Ram Lal, who seemed to come and go in strange ways, and was in communication with suspicious old Brahmin jugglers.

But I trusted Isaacs better than his adept friend.
"I suppose," I said, vaguely hoping there might yet be a possibility of detaining him, "that there is no way of doing this business so that you could remain here." "No, friend Griggs.