Then I took him in my arms, thus, one arm under the knees and one under his armpits, and lifted him.

He is a heavy man, all bone and sinew, and my stiff ankles caused me agony; but I contrived to lay him gently full length in the shadow of the tree-trunk, and then I covered him with his overcoat, to keep away flies.

I had scarcely finished that when Gooja Singh came, and I cursed under my breath; but openly I appeared pleased to see him.
"It is well you came!" said I."Thus I am saved the necessity of sending one to bring you.

Our sahib is asleep," I said, "and has made over the command to me until he shall awake again." "He sleeps very suddenly!" said Gooja Singh, and he stood eying me with suspicion.
"Well he may!" said I, thinking furiously--as a man in a burning house--yet outwardly all calm.

"He has done all our thinking for us all these days; he has borne alone the burden of responsibility.