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Hira Singh

CHAPTER VIII
19/63

Their plundering had cost them dear, for they had exposed themselves recklessly to get what their eyes lusted for.

They had lost more than fifty men.

But we had lost more than twenty killed, and there was a very long tale of wounded, so that Ranjoor Singh looked serious as he called the roll.

The Greek doctor had to work that night as if his own life depended on it--as in fact it did! We made Tugendheim help him, for, like all German soldiers, he knew something of first aid.
Then, because the Kurds could not be trusted on such an errand, Ranjoor Singh sent me back with fifty men to bring on the Syrians and our mules and belongings, and the gold.

He gave me Chatar Singh to help, and glad I was to have him.


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