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There is some shooting to be had, and you will see for yourself the sort of country between here and Taghati." "But people come over here sometimes." "Yes, from the south, or by Afghanistan." "Not always. What about the Korabaut Pass into Chitral? Ianoff and the Cossacks came through it." "That's true," said the man, as if in deep thought.
"You know Bardur and the country about there pretty well?" Lewis nodded. "Also I once talked to you about a man called Marka. Do you remember?" "Yes, of course I do. The man who went north from Bardur the week before I turned up there?" "Well, there's trouble brewing thereabouts. You know the Taghati country up beyond the Russian line.
Wratislaw obeyed and stretched the huge folio on the table. The elder man ran his forefinger in a circle. "There that wretched radius is the plague of my life. Our reports stop short at that line, and reliable information begins again some hundreds of miles north. Meanwhile between?" And he shrugged his shoulders. "I got news to-day in a roundabout way from Taghati.
When he had stumbled for what seemed hours he sat down on a boulder and whistled dismally. The stream belonged to another watershed. If he followed it, assuming that he did not break his neck over a dry cataract, he would be through the mountains and near Taghati quicker than he intended.
Lewis made some rapid calculations in his head which he jotted on the wood of the fireplace. "It would take a week to get from Bardur to Taghati by the ordinary Kashmir rate of travelling, but of course the place is unknown and it might take months. One would have to try it?" "I can only give you the bare facts. If you decide to go, Beauregard will give you particulars in town."
Now the good Gribton is coming home, and so he will have the place for a happy hunting-ground." Wratislaw was puffing his under-lip in deep thought. "It is a sweet business," he said. "But what can we do? Only wait?" "Yes, one could wait if Marka were the only disquieting feature. But what about Taghati and the Russian activity?
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