And if they do not strike at the French,' said he, 'the French will not appeal to the British for aid; and so the British troops will be free to protect the Jews and butcher us, by which means we shall be worse off than before.' "Whereat Yussuf Dakmar laughed again.

'If ye will go to the Sikh hospital,' said he, 'ye will find there the man who brought the letter.
He lies in a cot in the upper storey with a knife-wound between his shoulder-blades.

It was a mistaken accident unfortunate for him; the letter was intended for me, but I did not know that.

What does the life of one fool matter?
He gave out that Jews stabbed him, and it may be he believes that; yet I have the letter in my pocket here!' And he touched with one hand the portion of his coat beneath which was the pocket that contained the letter.

I was watching, sahib, from where I lay hidden.
"He was about, I think, to show them the letter, when another thought occurred to him.