These were produced; and Lisle, with great satisfaction, threw off the dirt-stained Pathan garments, and arrayed himself in uniform.
Pleased as all the others were at his return, no one was so delighted as Robah, who fairly cried over his master, whom he had believed to be lost for ever.
"We shall not be uneasy about you again, Bullen," the colonel said, as they lay down for the night.

"Whenever we miss you we shall know that, sooner or later, you will turn up, like a bad penny.

If you hadn't got that wound in the leg--which, by the way, the surgeon had better dress and examine in the morning--I should have said that you were invulnerable to Afridi bullets.

The next time there is some desperate service to be done, I shall certainly appoint you to undertake it; feeling convinced that, whatever it might be, and however great the risk, you will return unscathed.

You don't carry a charm about with you, do you ?" "No," Lisle laughed, "I wish I did; but anything I carry would not be respected by a Pathan bullet." Next morning the colonel reported Lisle's return, and Sir William Lockhart sent for him and obtained, from his lips, the story of the adventure.
"You managed excellently, sir," the general said, when he had finished.