My wife and the other ladies are all well content with their purchases, and agree that they would not have got them cheaper at Seringapatam, or Bangalore." "We try to buy cheaply and sell cheaply," Surajah said modestly.

"In that way we turn over our money quickly.

But it is seldom, indeed, that we find so good a market as we have done here.

When we left Bangalore, we thought that it might be a month before we should have to go back there to replenish our packs from our magazine; but we shall only have been away five or six days." "I am glad that you are content, for you are honest traders, and not like some of the rascals that have come up to the forts I have commanded, and fleeced the soldiers right and left." Although not given to blushing, Dick felt that he coloured under his dye at the praise; for although they had certainly sold cheaply, he doubted whether the term honest could be fairly applied to the whole transaction.
As ten o'clock approached, the two friends sat with open door, listening intently for every sound.

Conversation was still going on in the houses, and occasionally they could make out a dark figure crossing the yard.
It was not yet ten when a light footfall was heard, and a moment later Captain Holland appeared at the door.
"It is all right so far," he said, "but wait five minutes, to give me time to get the ladder fixed.