She will fear me just as long as old Hugh Johnstone is alive, for I could sell her out to him.

No one else cares.

They must both live to be our bankers.

Now tell me, why did either or both of them go to Calcutta--what for ?" Ram Lal figuratively washed his hands in invisible water.
"Running water, passing silently, leaves no story behind, Sahib," he said, simply.

"We have not caught our eels yet.