From the palm of your hand I will drink, and from the palm of my hand you shall drink; but the lips of the boy who comes with you shall not taste it.

The Rajputs do not drink opium with their betrayers.' Sunni heard, and his face grew crimson.
'Maharajah!' he shouted, 'I did not tell; I did not tell.' The Maharajah shrugged his shoulders contemptuously.
'He is not of our blood; why should he have kept silence ?' said the old man.
'But he did keep silence,' said the Colonel, looking straight into the Chitan's sunken eyes.

'I asked him about your men and your ammunition.

I commanded him, I threatened him.

I give you my word of honour as a soldier that he would say nothing.' The English in India are always believed.