"What does he do upon this balcony ?" "He watches the well below, and the water-carriers descending with their jars," said the Pathan, "and he talks with his friends.

That is all." "Very well," said Linforth.

"To-morrow we will go to him." He passed up the steps under the blue portico a little before the hour on the next morning, and entered a stone-flagged court which was thronged with pilgrims.

On each side of the archway a great copper vat was raised upon stone steps, and it was about these two vats that the crowd thronged.

Linforth and his guide could hardly force their way through.