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'Up, Daoud Khan' he cried to me 'we go a-hunting' and I sprang to the rear saddle even as the camel rose. 'Lead on, Moussa Isa, and track as thou hast never tracked before, if thou wouldst live, said he to the Somali, a noted paggi, even among the Baluch and Sindhi paggis of the police at Peshawar and Kot Ghazi.
On hearing this news, the Jam Saheb was exceeding wroth, for he had planned a good marriage for his son, and he arranged that the woman should die if my father, on whom be Peace, brought her to Mekran Kot.
Ross-Ellison smiled, glanced round the luxuriously appointed table and the company of fair women and brave men and thought of a far-distant and little-known place called Mekran Kot and of a phantom cavalry corps that haunted a valley in its vicinity. "Only one worth telling," said he.
"Ever seen him at Kot Ghazi or Bimariabad?" inquired Colonel Decies. "No," said the Captain, "never seen him anywhere. Why have you?" "Certainly seen him somewhere trying to remember where. I thought perhaps it might have been at the flying-school or at one of the messes. Can't place him at all, but I'll swear I've met him." "Manoeuvres, perhaps," suggested the other, "or 'board ship."
The line of least resistance being the natural one in India, we allowed him to guide us, and came after a few minutes, among the ruins of the citadel of Lal Kot, to one of those deep wells gained by long flights of steps whither the ladies of the palaces used to resort in the hottest weather.
He was making quite a name for himself by his experiments at the Kot Ghazi flying-school and by his articles and speeches on the formation and training of a R.A.M.C. flying branch. This would be an improvement on the system of having to open half a dozen medical and surgical cases when operating on the line of march, cases requiring the most expert repacking after use ...
If I find there is truth in your khubbar of ibex you will be rewarded ... Why don't I take you? Because I want to be alone. Set out now for Kot Ghazi. I may return." A stone fell and clattered. Dam shrank, cringed, and shut his eyes as one expecting a heavy blow. Ah-h-h-h-h had the beast bolted?
Richlun tat he shouldt come into teh offuss. He cumps in. 'Mr. Richlun, I sayss, sayss I to him, 'Mr. Richlun, I kot udt!" The baker shook his finger in Dr. Sevier's face. "'I kot udt, udt layst, Mr. Richlun! I yoost het a suspish'n sindts teh first tay fot I employedt you, ovver now I know I kot udt! Vell, sir, he yoost turnun so rate ass a flennen shirt! 'Mr.
"Taking me and Mir Abdul Haq and Mir Hussein Ali and many men and servants, among whom was the body-servant, the boy Moussa Isa Somali, he set forth, a little depressed that we heard not the cry of the partridge in the fields of Mekran Kot as we started not exactly a bad omen, but lacking a good one.
Whether it brought him nearer in any sense to Lenore de Warrenne, it brought him nearer to her son, on one of those hundred-mile circular "scours" which he practised when opportunity offered, generally accompanied by a like-minded officer of the R.A.M.C., to which Corps he had become a kind of unofficial and honorary instructor in "First- Aid Flying" at the Kot Ghazi flying-school, situate in the plains at the foot of the "Roof of the World".
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