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Updated: June 23, 2025
The Craft's the trick, so help me! and he brings forward that same Chief that I left at Bashkai Billy Fish we called him afterward, because he was so like Billy Fish that drove the big tank-engine at Mach on the Bolan in the old days. 'Shake hands with him, says Dravot; and I shook hands and nearly dropped, for Billy Fish gave me the Grip.
"'For the last time o' asking, Dan, do not, I says. 'It'll only bring us harm. The Bible says that Kings ain't to waste their strength on women, 'specially when they've got a new raw Kingdom to work over. "'For the last time of answering I will, said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil.
Then we asks the names of things in their lingo bread and water and fire and idols and such, and Dravot leads the priest of each village up to the idol, and says he must sit there and judge the people, and if anything goes wrong he is to be shot.
"At the levee which was held that night on the hillside with big bonfires, Dravot gives out that him and me were Gods and sons of Alexander, and Past Grand-Masters in the Craft, and was come to make Kafiristan a country where every man should eat in peace and drink in quiet, and specially obey us.
He had reduced the alphabet to eleven primitive sounds; and tried to teach me his method, but failed. "I sent that letter to Dravot," said Carnehan; "and told him to come back because this Kingdom was growing too big for me to handle, and then I struck for the first valley, to see how the priests were working.
"That's more like," said Carnehan. "If you could think us a little more mad we would be more pleased. We have come to you to know about this country, to read a book about it, and to be shown maps. We want you to tell us that we are fools and to show us your books." He turned to the bookcases. "Are you at all in earnest?" I said. "A little," said Dravot, sweetly.
We turned off before Jagdallak, because we heard the roads was good. But they wasnt good enough for our two camels mine and Dravots. When we left the caravan, Dravot took off all his clothes and mine too, and said we would be heathen, because the Kafirs didnt allow Mohammedans to talk to them.
Take some more whiskey, I said, very slowly. What did you and Daniel Dravot do when the camels could go no further because of the rough roads that led into Kafiristan? What did which do? There was a party called Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan that was with Dravot. Shall I tell you about him? He died out there in the cold.
He put it before the Council, and there was no answer till Billy Fish said that hed better ask the girls. Dravot damned them all round. Whats wrong with me? he shouts, standing by the idol Imbra. Am I a dog or am I not enough of a man for your wenches? Havent I put the shadow of my hand over this country?
He fumbled in the mass of rags round his bent waist; brought out a black horsehair bag embroidered with silver thread; and shook therefrom on to my table the dried, withered head of Daniel Dravot!
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