On the other hand, he would not press drink upon a Babu were he never so friendly, nor would he invite him to meat.

The strangers did all these things, and asked many questions--about women mostly--to which Hurree returned gay and unstudied answers.

They gave him a glass of whitish fluid like to gin, and then more; and in a little time his gravity departed from him.

He became thickly treasonous, and spoke in terms of sweeping indecency of a Government which had forced upon him a white man's education and neglected to supply him with a white man's salary.

He babbled tales of oppression and wrong till the tears ran down his cheeks for the miseries of his land.