But I do not know whether there is any truth in the story.

Nor can I find that any particular meaning is attached to the present.

I imagine that Shere Ali realised that it would be wise--as undoubtedly it was--for him to make his peace with the Mullah, and sent him accordingly the melons and the bags of grain as an earnest of his good-will." There the letter ended, and Ralston stood by the window as the light failed more and more from off the earth, pondering with a heavy heart upon its contents.

He had to make his choice between the Resident at Kohara and the lady of Gujerat.

Captain Phillips held that the present was not interpreted in any symbolic sense.