There are many long roads hereabouts, so that the place has become a depot for food and stores that the Turks plunder and the Germans despatch over the railway to the coast.

The railway has been taken over by the Germans." "Are we to storm the town ?" asked a trooper, and fifty men mocked him.

But Ranjoor Singh looked down kindly at him and gave him a word of praise.
"No, my son," he said.

"Yet if all had been stout enough to ask that, I would have dared attempt it.

No, we are perhaps a little desperate, but not yet so desperate as that." He began sweeping the horizon with his eyes, quartering the countryside mile by mile, overlooking nothing.