'I foresee evil for you.

I saw you last night brought back badly wounded.' "'But if I don't go your dream will come wrong,' I said.
"He shook his head.
"'You will go in spite of what I say,' he said; 'and you will suffer, and others too;' and he looked at a group of shikaris, who were standing together, ready to make a start.
"'How many men are there ?' he said.
"'Why, six of course,' I replied.
"'I see only three,' he said, 'and three dull spots.

One of those I see is holding his matchlock on his shoulder, another is examining his priming, the third is sitting down by the tire.

Those three will come back at the end of the day; the other three will not return alive.' "I felt rather uncomfortable, but I wasn't, as I said to myself--I was a good deal younger then, my dear--such a fool as to be deterred from what promised to be a good day's sport by such nonsense as this; and I went.
"We were going after a rogue elephant that had been doing a lot of damage among the natives' plantations.

We found him, and a savage brute he turned out to be.