Nicholson knew that--and applied it.

I follow--or try to follow--in Nicholson's steps." She clung to him suddenly and closely.

"Oh, don't--don't! This is another age.

We have advanced since then." "Have we ?" he said sombrely.

"And do you think the India of to-day can be governed by weakness any more successfully than the India of Nicholson's time?
You have no idea what you say when you talk like that.
Ermsted is not the first Englishman to be killed in this State.