Be ready!" The sahib will understand now better what I meant by saying Anim Singh has ears too big for his head.

Because of his big ears, that could detect a foot-fall in the darkness farther away than any of us, he had been sent to share the guard with me, and now he came looming up out of the night to share our counsels; for since the news of Gooja Singh's defection there was no longer even a pretense at awkwardness in approaching Ranjoor Singh.

Anim Singh had been among the first to fling distrust to the winds and to make the fact evident.
But into those great ears, during all our days and weeks and months of marching, Gooja Singh had whispered--whispered.

The things men whisper to each other are like deeds done in the dark--like rats that run in holes--put to shame by daylight.

So Anim Singh came now, and Ranjoor Singh repeated to him what he had just told me.