Find out by and by.

Meanwhile you wear ring, for while that on finger no one do you any harm." "You told me that this Asika is a married woman, did you not ?" remarked Alan gloomily.
"Oh, yes, Major, always married; one down, other come on, you see.

But she not always like her husband, and then she make him sit up, poor devil, and he die double quick.

Great honour to be Asika's husband, but soon all finished.

P'raps----" Then he checked himself and suggested that Alan should have a bath while he cleaned his clothes, an attention that they needed.
Scarcely had Alan finished his toilet, donned the Arab-looking linen robe over his own fragmentary flannels, and above it the hateful mask which Jeekie insisted he must wear, when there came a knocking on the door.