I don't think myself it is quite fair having a light behind him; still, if he agrees, it will be hardly possible for him to make the slightest movement without being seen." The juggler, who was sitting round at the other side of the house, was now called up.

He and the girl, who followed him, salaamed deeply, and made an even deeper bow to Bathurst, who was standing behind Isobel's chair.
"You must have paid them well, Bathurst," Major Hannay said.

"They have evidently a lively remembrance of past favors.

I suppose they are the same you were talking about ?" "Yes, they are the same people, Major." Then he said in the native dialect to the juggler, "Mr.Hunter has put some posts with lamps behind you, Rujub, but he hasn't lit them because he did not know whether you would object." "They can be lighted, sahib.

My feats do not depend on darkness.