First, have you done my bidding ?" "Thy bidding has been done," said the great man sulkily.

"See, I am here with my chiefs.

All the twenty villages of my tribe have been warned, and arms have been got from the fools at Bardur.

Also, I have the Yarkand powder I was told of, to give the signals on the hills.

The Nazri Pass road, which we alone know, has been widened.