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The notion tickled Fazir Khan and he laughed with great good-hureat is the wisdom of youth I will tell you a secret, my son In a little the Bada-Mawidi, my people, will be in Bardur and a little later in the fat corn lands of the south, and I, Fazir Khan, will sit in King's palaces" He looked conte with pride

"What the devil do yoususpicion This was not the common talk of a Border cateran

"I mean what I mean," said the other "In a little all the world shall see But because I have a liking for a bold cockerel like thee, I will speak unwisely The days of your people are nu from the north ill set their foot on your necks"

Leent sick at heart A thousand half-forgotten suspicions called clamorously This was the secret of the burlesque at Forza, and the new valour of the Badas He saw Marker's game with the fatal clearness of one who is too late He had been given a chance of a little piece of service to avert his suspicions Marker had fathomed him well as one who must satisfy a restless conscience but had no stoht that noould be enjoying the rest after labour at Forza, flattering hiarrison, when all the while the force poured dohich was to destroy an euided by every Border half-breed and outlahat hope of help in God's na Bardur?

And the Kashe Supplies in readiness, co to be held, railways ready for capture Europe was on the edge of a volcano He saw an outbreak there which would keep Britain ereat poith her endless forces and bottoht of the frontier he checked himself There was no road by which an army could march; if there was any it could be blocked by a handful A week's, a day's delay would save the north, and the north would save the empire

His voice came out of his throat with a crack in it like an old h the mountains I have been there before and I know"