When he wakes," I added, "I shall tell him who obeyed the swiftest." I was thinking still.

Thinking furiously.

I knew nothing at all yet about Abraham, and that was good, for otherwise I might have decided to wait there for him to overtake us.
"Have the men finished eating ?" I asked, and he answered he was come because they had finished eating.
"Then the order is to proceed at once!" said I."Send a cart here under the rock and eight good men, that we may lower our sahib into it.

With the exception of that one cart let the column proceed in the same order as before, the Turk and his men leading." "Leading whither ?" asked Gooja Singh.
"Let us hope," said I, "to a place where orders are obeyed in military manner without question! Have you heard the order ?" I asked, and I made as if to go and wake our officer.
Without another word Gooja Singh climbed down from the rock and went about shouting his commands as if he himself were their originator.
Meanwhile I thought busily, with an eye for the wide horizon, wondering whether we were being pursued, or whether telegrams had not perhaps been sent to places far ahead, ordering Turkish regiments to form a cordon and cut us off.

I wondered more than ever who Wassmuss might be, and whether Ranjoor Singh had had at any time the least idea of our eventual destination.