There was sudden silence in the room, and I stood at attention, striving to look like a man of wood.
"It is as I said," said he in English.

"It was most unwise to pay them.

Now the ruffians demand liberty to go and spend--and that means license! They have been prisoners of war in close confinement too long.

You should have sent them to Gallipoli before they tasted money or anything else but work! Who shall control such men now!" The German officer stroked his chin, eying Ranjoor Singh sternly, yet I thought irresolutely.
"If they would be safer on board a steamer, that can be managed.

A steamer came in to-day, that would do," said he, speaking in English, perhaps lest the Turks understand.