I've always been held up to ridicule as an alarmist about that Kashmir frontier, and especially about that Bardur country.

Take the whole province.

It's well garrisoned on the north, but below that it is all empty and open.

The way into the Punjab is as clear as daylight for a swift force, and the way to the Punjab is the way to India." Lewis rose and went to a rack on the wall.

"Do you mind if I get down maps?
These French ones are very good." He spread a sheet of canvas on the table, thereby confounding all Gribton's hospitable manoeuvring.
"There," said Gribton, his eyes now free from drowsiness, and clear and bright, "that's the road I fear." "But these three inches are unknown," said Lewis.