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Hira Singh

CHAPTER V
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"Let Gooja Singh alone." So I went and grew very busy ordering the column.

In twenty minutes we were under way, with a screen of horsemen several hundred yards ahead and another little mounted rear-guard.

But when the order had been given to resume the march and the carts were squeaking along in single file, I rode to his side again with a question.

I had been thinking deeply, and it seemed to me I had the only answer to my thoughts.
"Tell me, sahib," I said, "our nearest friends must be the Russians.
How many hundred miles is it to Russia ?" But he shook his head and laughed again.

"Between us and Russia lies the strongest of all the Turkish armies," he said.


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