Besides, it will take the men three days to get the elephants together, and I only telegraphed this morning to the collector of the district to make the arrangements." "So you have already taken steps?
Does Kildare know you have sent orders ?" "Certainly.

He came to me this morning at daybreak, and we determined to arrange everything and take uncle Ghyrkins for granted.

You need not look astonished; Kildare and I are allies, and very good friends." What a true Oriental! How wise and far-sighted was the Persian, how bold and reckless the Irishman! It was odd, I thought, that Kildare had not mentioned the interview with Isaacs.

Yet there was a certain rough delicacy--contradictory and impulsive--in his silence about this coalition with his rival.

We rode along and discussed the plans for the expedition.