He nodded.
"Yes, plague; all same like dem hab him so bad down Bombay way." "Do you know his name ?" I asked; for though one does not like to desert a fellow-creature in distress, I did not care to turn aside from my road on such an errand, with Hilda and Lady Meadowcroft, unless for some amply sufficient reason.
The retired gentleman shook his head in the most emphatic fashion.

"How me know ?" he answered, opening the palms of his hands as if to show he had nothing concealed in them.

"Forget Eulopean name all times so easily.

And traveller sahib name very hard to lemember.

Not got English name.