"To drive the Road through Chiltistan means war.

It would be the cause of war if we insisted upon it now, just as it was the cause of war when your father went up from Peshawur twenty-six years ago.

Or it might be the consequence of war.

If the Chiltis rose in arms, undoubtedly we should carry it on to secure control of the country in the future.

Well, it is the last alternative that we are face to face with now." "The Chiltis might rise!" cried Linforth.
"There is that possibility," Ralston returned.