Tooni paid Sheik Uddin tenpence, and admired her purchase very much.

She dressed Sonny Sahib in it doubtfully, however, with misgivings as to what his father would say.

Certainly it was good cloth, of a pretty colour, and well made, but even to Tooni, Sonny Sahib looked queer.

Abdul had no opinion, except about the price.

He grumbled at that, but then he had grumbled steadily for two years, yet whenever Tooni proposed that they should go and find the captain-sahib, had said no, it was far, and he was an old man.