What can I do for you, please ?' The gentlemen were delighted.

One was visibly French, the other Russian, but they spoke English not much inferior to the Babu's.

They begged his kind offices.

Their native servants had gone sick at Leh.
They had hurried on because they were anxious to bring the spoils of the chase to Simla ere the skins grew moth-eaten.

They bore a general letter of introduction (the Babu salaamed to it orientally) to all Government officials.