Now across the plain he saw in the distance the round fort of Jamrud, and he suddenly halted: "I must sit down," he said.

"I cannot help it, your Excellency, I must stop and sit down." Ralston turned to him with a look of cold surprise.
"Before me, Futteh Ali Shah?
You will sit down in my presence before I sit down?
I think you will not." Futteh Ali Shah gazed up the road and down the road, and saw no help anywhere.

Only this devilish Chief Commissioner stood threateningly before him.

With a gesture of despair he wiped his face and walked on.
For a mile more he limped on by Ralston's side, the while Ralston discoursed upon the great question of Agricultural Banks.

Then he stopped again and blurted out: "I will give you no more trouble.