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"I got news to-day in a roundabout way frohati That's the town just within the Russian frontier there It seems that the whole country is in a ferment The hill tribes are out and the Russian frontier line is threatened So they say I have the actual na the row Russian troops are beingthe line there The whole place, you know, has been for long a arrisoned, so there is no difficulty about theThe difficulty lies in the reason Three thousand square erous One would think that the whole Afghan nation was lanced up at his companion, and the twodefinite He is somewhere in the Pamirs, up to so I have forgotten I found out the other day that our gentleman had been down quite recently in south-west Kashmir He was Arthur Marker at the time, the son of a German count and a Scotchnatives and Europeans alike He went south from Bardur, and apparently returned north by the Punjab At Bardur, Logan and Thwaite were iood Gribton is coround"

Wratislaas puffing his under-lip in deep thought "It is a sweet business," he said "But what can we do? Only wait?"

"Yes, one could wait if Marka were the only disquieting feature But what about Taghati and the Russian activity? What on earth is going on or about to go on in this square inch of mountain land to make all the pother? If it is a tribal war on a first-class scale then we ree our concern too If it is anything else, things look more than doubtful All the rest I don't mind It's open and obvious, and we are on the alert But that little bit of frontier there is so little known and apparently so rein to be afraid of trouble in that direction What do you think?"

Wratislaw shook his head He had no opinion to offer

"At any rate, you need fear no aard questions in the House, for this sort of thing cannot be public for months"