You will see a light in my room; come straight to the open window." "We will be there, sahib;" and with a salaam the juggler walked off, followed by his daughter.
A few minutes before the appointed time Bathurst threw down his pen with a little sigh of satisfaction.
The memo he had just finished was a most conclusive one; it seemed to him unanswerable, and that the Department would have trouble in disputing his facts and figures.

He had not since he sat down to his work given another thought to the juggler, and he almost started as a figure appeared in the veranda at the open window.
"Ah, Rujub, is it you?
I have just finished my work.

Come in; is Rabda with you ?" "She will remain outside until I want her," the juggler said as he entered and squatted himself on the floor.

"I am not going to juggle, sahib.

With us there are two sorts of feats; there are those that are performed by sleight of hand or by means of assistance.