9/33 The men who do that shall be my own. To Kathlyn Mem-sahib your pet leopards will be as play fellows. She has the eye, and the voice, and the touch. There must be luck in it." "If Umballa can be lured to drink his pegs." Then, with an impatient gesture Ahmed added: "Folly! What! Umballa and the council will not recognize the Colonel Sahib's hair, the Mem-sahib's golden head ?" "In the go-down of Lal Singh, the cobbler, there are many things, even wigs and false beards," retorted Ramabai slyly. So then we have wigs and beards. |