One plan is no supper or breakfast; but the champion scheme is the doctor's.
On complaint by the askaris that a man on the chain has shirked his work, or answered back, or been obstreperous, the doctor serves him out a handful of strong pills and sees him swallow them.

They don't unchain them at night.

D'you get the idea ?" "Not yet." "Every time the man has to go outside he must wake the whole gang and take them with him! They're weary after working twelve hours at a stretch.

After the second or third time up they begin to object pretty strenuously.

After the third or fourth time he's so unpopular that he'd almost rather die than wake them.