He drew a bow at a venture.
"Can your Excellency interpret the message?
As they interpret it in Chiltistan ?" and it seemed to him that he had this time struck true.

"It is a little thing I ask of your Excellency." "It is not a great thing, to be sure," Ralston admitted.

He looked at the zemindar and laughed.

"But I could tell the story rather well," he said doubtfully.

"It would be an amusing story as I should tell it.