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I worked up my native clerk Bulaki Ram to a ferocious pitch of enthusiasm. He used to calculate the profits of our cotton-scheme to three points of decimals, after office. I tell you I envied your magistrates here hauling money out of motorists every week I had managed to make our ordinary revenue and expenditure just about meet, and I was crazy to get the odd two hundred pounds for my cotton.
I couldn't go myself, so I told a couple of our Makalali police and Imam Din to make talk with the gentleman one time. It was rather risky, and it might have been expensive, but it turned up trumps. Why, he offered 'em to you, didn't he, Imam Din?" "I was witness that he offered man-eaters' for sale," said Imam Din. "Luckily for my cotton-scheme, that landed, him both ways.
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