Listen! There comes the guard! We had better both run!" "Not so fast!" Grim answered.
And then he raised his voice perceptibly, as if he wished to be overheard: "I think those men who passed just now were not officers at all.

Perhaps they were strangers.

It may be that one of them is confused, and is leading the guard in the wrong direction!" "Don't make so much noise then!" retorted Yussuf Dakmar.

Jeremy, who thinks habitually about ten times as fast as I do, slipped away at once into the shadows to find Narayan Singh and decoy the guard elsewhere.

I didn't envy him the job, for Sikhs use cold steel first and argue afterward when on the qui vive in the dark.