You shall go as soon as I can get word to Mahommed Gunga's man.

Call that old woman in." "Father, I will not go without you, and you know it! My place is with you, and I have quite made up my mind.

If you stay, I stay! My presence here has saved your life a hundred times over.

No, I don't mean just when you were ill; I mean that they dare not lay a finger on me! They know that a nation which respects their women would strike hard and swiftly to avenge a woman of its own! If I were to go away and leave you they would poison you or stab you within a day, and then hold a mock trial and hang some innocent or other to blind the British Government.

I would be a murderess if I left you here alone! Come! Come away!" He shook his head.