CHAPTER III.
Shall he who knows not false from true judge treason ?--EASTERN PROVERB.
You may well imagine, sahib, in the huts that night there was noise as of bees about to swarm.

No man slept.

Men flitted like ghosts from hut to hut--not too openly, nor without sufficient evidence of stealth to keep the guards in good conceit of themselves, but freely for all that.

What the men of one hut said the men of the next hut knew within five minutes, and so on, back and forth.
I was careful to say nothing.

When men questioned me, "Nay," said I.
"I am one and ye are many.