He has enforced the discipline," said I with a deliberate stare that made Gooja Singh look sullen, "and God knows how necessary that has been! He has let no littlest detail of the march escape him.

He has eaten no more than we; he has marched as far and as fast as we; he has slept less than any of us.

And now," said I, "he is weary.

He kept awake until I came, and fell asleep in my arms when he had given me his orders." Gooja Singh looked as if he did not believe me.

But my words had been but a mask behind which I was thinking.