He will probably try to cheat us by making preposterous charges when he gets us back to Toloo; but that's Lady Meadowcroft's business.

I don't doubt Sir Ivor will be more than a match for him there.

I'll back one shrewd Yorkshireman against any three Tibetan half-castes, any day." "You're right that he would cut our throats if it served his purpose," I answered.

"He's servile, and servility goes hand in hand with treachery.
The more I watch him, the more I see 'scoundrel' written in large type on every bend of the fellow's oily shoulders." "Oh, yes, he's a bad lot, I know.

The cook, who can speak a little English and a little Tibetan, as well as Hindustani, tells me Ram Das has the worst reputation of any man in the mountains.