39/44 What did it matter? And so whoever walked down the Chandni Chauk during that hour dangled from those branches. Huzoor, for a week this went on--for a whole week." The story was current in Delhi. Ahmed Ismail found it to his hand, and Shere Ali did not question it. He sat up erect, and something of the fire which this last day had been extinct kindled again in his sombre eyes. |