I'm dazed." In the city few knew anything about Ahmed, not even the keenest of Umballa's spies.

Umballa had his suspicions, but as yet he could prove nothing.

To the populace he was a harmless animal trainer who was only too glad not in any way to be implicated with his master.

So they let him alone.

Day by day he waited for the report from Lal Singh, but so far he had heard nothing except that the British Raj was very busy killing the followers of the Mahdi in the Soudan.