But his eyes had no interest in them.
"You know Bardur and the country about there pretty well ?" Lewis nodded.
"Also I once talked to you about a man called Marka.

Do you remember ?" "Yes, of course I do.

The man who went north from Bardur the week before I turned up there ?" "Well, there's trouble brewing thereabouts.

You know the Taghati country up beyond the Russian line.

Things are in a ferment there, great military preparations and all the rest of it, and the reason, they say, is that the hill-tribes in the intervening No-man's-land are at their old games.