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The man moistened his lips with his tongue and, in his abject fear of 'Estreekin Sahib', the fakir went back on every detail of his evidence said he was a poor man, and God was his witness that he had forgotten everything that Bronckhorst Sahib had told him to say. Between his terror of Strickland, the Judge, and Bronckhorst he collapsed weeping. Then began the panic among the witnesses.
After one long talk with Miss Youghal he dropped the business entirely. The Youghals went up to Simla in April. In July, Strickland secured three months' leave on "urgent private affairs." He locked up his house though not a native in the Providence would wittingly have touched "Estreekin Sahib's" gear for the world and went down to see a friend of his, an old dyer, at Tarn Taran.
Strickland hung about in the veranda of the Court, till he met the Mohammedan khitmutgar. Then he murmured a fakir's blessing in his ear, and asked him how his second wife did. The man spun round, and, as he looked into the eyes of 'Estreekin Sahib', his jaw dropped. You must remember that before Strickland was married, he was, as I have told you already, a power among natives.
Janki, the ayah, leering chastely behind her veil, turned grey, and the bearer left the Court. He said that his Mamma was dying, and that it was not wholesome for any man to lie unthriftily in the presence of 'Estreekin Sahib'. Biel said politely to Bronckhorst, 'Your witnesses don't seem to work.
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