"You are our servants, and duty is duty.

But I have authority for saying that we shall hold your work in mind when we have settled our business." "What would ye be without us ?" said the chief in sudden temper.

"What do ye know of the Nazri gates or the hill country?
What is this talk of duty, when ye cannot stir a foot without our aid ?" "You are our servants, as I said before," said the man curtly.

"You have taken our gold and our food.

Where would you be, outlaws, vagrants that you are, hated of God and man, but for our help?
Your bodies would have rotted long ago on the hills.