But since you mean to risk your neck for your own peculiar views of what is right, I will endeavour that you shall not break it.

I will meet you a day's journey before you reach Keitung, somewhere on the road, and we will go together and do the business.

But if I am to help you I will not promise not to perform some miracles, as you call them, though you know very well they are no such thing.

Meanwhile, do as you please about the tiger-hunt; I shall say no more about it." He paused, and then, withdrawing one delicate hand from the folds of his _caftan_, he pointed to the wall behind Isaacs and me, and said, "What a very singular piece of workmanship is that yataghan!" We both naturally turned half round to look at the weapon he spoke of, which was the central piece in a trophy of jewelled sabres and Afghan knives.
"Yes," said Isaacs, turning back to answer his guest, "it is a -- --" He stopped, and I, who had not seen the weapon before, lost among so many, and was admiring its singular beauty, turned too; to my astonishment I saw that Isaacs was gazing into empty space.

The divan where Ram Lal had been sitting an instant before, was vacant.