Its body was not found, and was supposed to have been eaten by the jackals.

Is it alive still ?" "Yes, sahib, I have brought him up as my own.

His skin has been always stained; and none but my brother--with whom I live--his wife, and one other, know that he is English.

I love him as my own child.

I have taught him English, as I speak it; but I want him, in time, to be an English sahib, and for that he must learn proper English." "But why have you not brought him down here ?" the Parsee said.
"Who would have looked after him, and cared for him, sahib, as I, his nurse, have done?
Who could have taken him?
What would have become of him?
I am a poor woman, and do not know how these things would be.