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Thou knowest how my eyes were soothed and healed, and that it is a potent charm, and surely it is not changed? Mir Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan was all Pathan then, Sahib, whatever he may have been at other times. I could not have played more skilfully with the dog myself. "At last, turning to Moussa Isa he said:

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It had been a case of "and even the ranks of Tuscany" on the part of Mir Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan Ilderim Dost Mahommed.... Later he had encountered him and Captain Malet-Marsac at Duri. Mrs. Pat Dearman was sceptical. "Do you mean to tell me that you, a man of science, an eminent medical man, and a soldier, believe in the supernatural?"

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He was Colonel of the Corps of which I was Adjutant, in fact the Gungapur Volunteer Rifles.... By Jove! That explains a lot. John Robin Ross-Ellison!" I was too incredulous to be astounded. It could not be. "Han Sahib, bé shak! Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan was his name.

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I asked, for the Subedar-Major's rapid utterance of the name conveyed nothing of familiar English or Scottish names to my mind. "Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan," replied Mir Daoud Khan; "that was her father's name, Sahib." "Say it again, slowly." "Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan." "I have it! Yes, but what? John Robin Ross-Ellison? Good God! But I knew a John Robin Ross-Ellison when I was a Captain.

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And his mother called him Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan and his father, Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan, called him Ilderim Dost Mahommed." Yes. Without doubt. "H'm! A Scotch Pathan, brought up by an Australian girl in India, would be a rare bird and of rare possibilities naturally," I murmured, while my mind worked quickly backward. "My brother was unlike us in some things, Sahib.

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I said he was not a slave but in a sense he was, for he asked nothing better than to sit in the shadow of my brother throughout his life; for he loved my brother as the Huzoors' dogs love their masters, yea he would rather have had blows from my brother than gold from another. He it was who saved Mir Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan from the terrible death prepared for him by Ibrahim Mahmud.

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He'd attend to him in the morning though it would serve the brute right if Horace threw him out at the next station without his kit. But he looked rather large, and Mercy is notoriously a kingly attribute. In the morning Mir Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan Mir Ilderim Dost Mahommed of Mekran Kot, Gungapur, and the world in general, awoke, yawned, stretched himself and arose.

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Basin or pot. "'For that blow will I have a great revenge, O Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan, descendant of Mirs and of mlecca dogs, this year or next year, or ten years hence, or when thou art old, or upon thy first-born.

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