They chivied me out of it when I went to take soil for analysis--me and Imam Din."

Last year it exceeded three rupees," Imam Din said quietly.

Our chief medical officer is writing a monograph about it.) So Imam Din and I emptied out the corpse one time, with my shaving soap and trade gunpowder, and hot water.

He was bad, though; lay like a log for a week while Imam Din and I massaged the paralysis out of him.

It was all through the Hajji that we found the money for our cotton-play." Imam Din had moved, I fancy, behind Strickland's chair.

I couldn't go myself, so I told a couple of our Makalali police and Imam Din to make talk with the gentleman one time.

"I was witness that he offered man-eaters' for sale," said Imam Din.

"You'll take your arsenic, and Imam Din'll take you up to bed, and I'll come and tuck you in."

We waited till Imam Din returned to us from above and coughed at the door, as only dark-hearted Asia can.

But the Infant had already made the sign, and we heard Imam Din hunker down on the floor: One gets little out of the East at attention.

Sahib," Imam Din turned to Strickland, "our Sahib answered to those false words as a horse of blood answers to the spur.

"Assuredly," said Imam Din. "On the night before our Sahib went down to the sea, the Great Sahib--the Man with the Stone Eyes--dined with him in his camp, I being in charge of the table.