I will myself urge upon the Government's advisers the wisdom of your Highness' proposal." Moreover Dewes failed to carry Luffe's dying message to Calcutta.

For on one point--a point of fact--Luffe was immediately proved wrong.

Mir Ali, the Khan of Chiltistan, was retained upon his throne.

Dewes turned the matter over in his slow mind.

Wrong definitely, undeniably wrong on the point of fact, was it not likely that Luffe was wrong too on the point of theory?
Dewes had six months furlong too, besides, and was anxious to go home.