They ran out of the house and up the hillside, but as there was only one path they ran away together, quarrelling as they went.

Then the young Chilti rose, followed them, caught them up, tied them in turn hand and foot, laid them side by side on a slab of stone, and quietly cut their throats.
"'Women talk too much,' he said, as he came back to a house unfamiliarly quiet.

'One had really to put a stop to it.'" Knowing this and many similar stories, Luffe had been for some while on the alert.

Whispers reached him of dangerous talk in the bazaars of Kohara, Peshawur, and even of Benares in India proper.

He heard of the growing power of the old Mullah by the river-bank.