I said to her,
`Memsahib! I have your husband's orders!' She asked me `What orders,
Juggut Khan?' I said, `Why ask me, memsahib? Is my task easier,
or yours?' She said `Obey your orders, Juggut Khan, and accept my
thanks now, since I shall be unable to thank you afterward!' And
then she looked me bravely in the face, and met her death, sahib.
Of a truth I know! I am to be trusted!"
"I believe you, Juggut Khan. And, incidentally, I beg your pardon
for having doubted you. Have you slept ?"
"Nay, Sahib. And I sleep not on this side of the crossroads!"
"I don't place Sergeant Brown under your command--you'll understand
that's impossible--but, it's quite impossible for him to catch me up.
He may as well cooperate with you. Wait." He paused, and wrote, then
continued, "Here is a note to him, in which I order him to work with
you, and to take your advice whenever possible. Go to the stables,
and choose any horse you like except my first charger. Here--here
is money; you may need some. Count that, will you. How much is it?
Four hundred rupees? Write out a receipt for it.
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