Choose ye! Could I lead you against your wills ?" They murmured at that, but silence is easier to keep than some men think.
Why did I say nothing?
In the first place, sahib, because my mind was made at last.

With all my heart now, with the oath of a Sikh and the truth of a Sikh I was Ranjoor Singh's man.

I believed him true, and I was ready to stand or fall by that belief, in the dark, in the teeth of death, against all odds, anywhere.

Therefore there was nothing I could say with wisdom.

For if they were to suspect my true thoughts, they would lose all confidence in me, and then I should be of little use to the one man who could help all of us.