Are all sons like their fathers?
Take Maharajah Howrah here; his father was a man with whom any soldier might be proud to pick a quarrel.
The present man is afraid of his own shadow on the wall--divided between love for the treasure-chests he dare not broach and fear of a brother whom he dare not kill.

He is priest-ridden, priest-taught, and fit to be nothing but a priest.

Who knows how young Cunnigan will shape?
Where is he?
Overseas yet! He must prove himself, as his father did, before he can hope to lead a free regiment of horse!" "Then Cunnigan-bahadur's watch-word 'For the peace of India,' is dead-died with him ?" asked Mahommed Gunga.

"We are each for our own again ?" "I have spoken!" answered Alwa.

As the biggest clan-chief left on all that countryside, he had a right to speak before the others, and he knew that what he said would carry weight when they had all ridden home again, and the report had gone abroad in ever-widening rings.