For the honor of the regiment, sahib, do not refuse this thing.

All I ask is, if your honor escapes, that you will write to Kurnal I-shpence-sahib, and tell him the last act of Mir Jan, _naik_ in B troop." There was an intense pathos in the man's words.

He made this self-sacrificing offer with an utter absence of any motive save the old tradition of duty to the colors.

Here was Anstruther-sahib, of the Belgaum Rissala, in dire peril.

Very well, then, Corporal Mir Jan, late of the 19th Bengal Lancers, must dare all to save him.
Jenks was profoundly moved.