Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stone-cast.

A deep moat lay in front of our door, but the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed.

It was strange to me to be standing there with those two wild Punjaubees waiting for the man who was coming to his death.
"Suddenly my eye caught the glint of a shaded lantern at the other side of the moat.

It vanished among the mound-heaps, and then appeared again coming slowly in our direction.
"'Here they are!' I exclaimed.
"'You will challenge him, Sahib, as usual,' whispered Abdullah.

'Give him no cause for fear.