They fell upon two men sitting under this truck--Hajji, what shall I do with this lump of tobacco?
Wrap it in paper and put it under the salt-bag?
Yes--and struck them down.

But one man struck at a Sahib with a fakir's buck's horn' (Kim meant the conjoined black-buck horns, which are a fakir's sole temporal weapon)--'the blood came.

So the other Sahib, first smiting his own man senseless, smote the stabber with a short gun which had rolled from the first man's hand.

They all raged as though mad together.' Mahbub smiled with heavenly resignation.

'No! That is not so much dewanee [madness, or a case for the civil court--the word can be punned upon both ways] as nizamut [a criminal case].