I lit a cheroot.
"Isaacs," I said, "you are a pretty cool hand, upon my word." "Why ?" "Why, indeed! Here you and Miss Westonhaugh have been calmly planning an extensive tiger-hunt, when you have promised to be in the neighbourhood of Keitung in three weeks, wherever that may be.

I suppose it is in the opposite direction from here, for you will not find any tigers nearer than the Terai at this time of year." "I do not see the difficulty," he answered.

"We can be in Oude in two days from here; shoot tigers for ten days, and be here again in two days more.

That is just a fortnight.

It will not take me a week to reach Keitung.