CHAPTER XXIV.
NEWS FROM AJMERE Something of this pilgrimage Ralston understood; and what he understood he explained to Dick Linforth on the top of the tower at Peshawur.
Linforth, however, was still perplexed, still unconvinced.
"I can't believe it," he cried; "I know Shere Ali so well." Ralston shook his head.
"England overlaid the real man with a pretty varnish," he said.

"That's all it ever does.

And the varnish peels off easily when the man comes back to an Indian sun.

There's not one of these people from the hills but has in him the makings of a fanatic.

It's a question of circumstances whether the fanaticism comes to the top or not.