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"In the past Now they are quiet enough"

"But I understood that there was a ferment in the Pamirs The other side threatened, you know" He had almost said "your side," but checked hi, but that is further west The Bada-Mawidi are too poor to raise tords in the whole tribe You will coo north, and I can recommend the quarter?" asked Leith sharp eyes "I araphical work, and if I can join both I shall be glad Due north is the Russian frontier?

"Due north after some scores of the most precipitous miles in the world It is a preposterous country I e of it, and know it as well as erated It has never beenabout it tobut desolate, unvaried rock The pass to Yarkand goes to the east, and the Afghan routes are to the west But to the north you coet beyond it The Bada-Mawidi live in some of the wretched nullahs There is sport, of course, of a kind, but not perhaps the best I should recommend you to try the more easterly hills"

The speaker's manner was destitute of all attempt to dissuade, and yet Lewis felt in so to dissuade hi existed between Bardur and the Russian frontier which this pleasant gentleue," he said, "and of course we are glad of your advice"

"And I ah in many ways you know the place better than I do Your book is the work of a very clever and observantso I was thankful to find that you were not the ordinary embryo-publicist who looks at the frontier hills from Bardur, and then rushes home and talks about invasion"

"You think there is no danger, then?"

"On the contrary, I honestly think that there is danger, but fro sick, and when she is sick enough, some people who are less sick will overwhelm her My own opinion is that Russia will be the people"