5/39 The very first thing they will do will be to search the saddle-bags. In a quarter of an hour they will be as dead and we can return." "It is a good plan," said Bala Khan, when the conversation was fully translated to him. "And once the elephant is back in the compound I'll send a dozen men back for the rogues. Ah! they will play with me; they will steal into my town, overcome my guards, take the apple of my eye! Ramabai, thou art a friend indeed. |