He, too, forgot that the Dyaks were foxes, and foxes can lie close when hounds are a trifle stale.
Mir Jan returned the revolver.
"Sahib," he said with another salaam, "I am a disgraced man, but if you will take me up there with you, I will fight by your side until both my arms are hacked off.

I am weary of these thieves.

Ill chance threw me into their company: I will have no more of them.

If you will not have me on the rock, give me a gun.

I will hide among the trees, and I promise that some of them shall die to-night before they find me.