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Updated: June 16, 2025
So far he had been spared, and now it seemed unlikely that in the midst of this bustle of war there would be room for the torture which alone he dreaded. So he met the chief's look squarely, and at the moment he thanked the lot which had given him two more inches of height. "I have sent for thee, my son," said Fazir Khan, "that you may see how great my people is."
About noon there was a bustle in the square and Fazir Khan with a dozen of his tail swaggered in. He came straight to the hut, and two men entered and brought out the prisoner. Lewis stiffened his back and prepared not reluctantly for a change in the situation. He had no special fear of this smiling, sinister chieftain.
The Nazri Pass road, which we alone know, has been widened. What more could man do?" "That is well," said the other. "It is well for you and your people that you have done this. Your service shall not be forgotten. Otherwise " "Otherwise?" said the Fazir Khan, his hand travelling to his belt at the sound of a threat. The man laughed. "You know the tale," he said.
And sure enough in the morning stillness came the sound as of a watchword cried from post to post. "That," said he, "is the morning signal of an awakened empire and the final proof of our failure." "It was no fault of mine," said Fazir Khan sourly. "I did as I was commanded, and lo! when I come I find an army in confusion and the frontier guarded."
"I have seen," said Lewis, looking round. "You have a large collection of jackals, but you will not bring many back." The notion tickled Fazir Khan and he laughed with great good-humour. "So, so," he cried. "Behold how great is the wisdom of youth. I will tell you a secret, my son.
You are freemen indeed in the face of the world, but you are our servants." Fazir Khan made a gesture of impatience. "That is as God may direct it," he said. "Who are ye but a people of yesterday, while the Bada-Mawidi is as old as the rocks. The English were here before you, and we before the English. It is right that youth should reverence age."
Fazir Khan looked up sharply at Lewis, then laughed, and spoke something to his men in his own tongue. Lewis comprehended barely a few words of Chil, the Bada tongue, and he knew little of the frontier speeches. But to his amazement the chief addressed him in tolerable, if halting, English.
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