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Qui hai means roughly, "Is anyone there?" and you cry that instead of ringing a bell, and it brings the instant response "Huzoor," and a servant springs from nowhere to do your bidding. Lao means "bring" and jao "go." You never say "please," and you learn the words in a cross tone that is, if you want to be really Anglo-Indian.

But I bore him no ill-will, Huzoor. I loved him and admired his deeds. "Many attempts they made, but though my mother was clever and Ibrahim Mahmud and his father the Vizier were unscrupulous, my brother was in the protection of the Prophet. Moreover he was much away from Mekran Kot, being, like our father, a great traveller and soon irked by whatever place he might be in.

"He may have been foolishly kind to women, servants and dogs, and of a foolish type of honour that taketh not every possible advantage of the foe but he was very brave, Huzoor, a strong enemy, and when he began he made an end, and if that same honour were affronted he killed his man.

Unless memory plays tricks with me, the Orakzai Pathans had burned mine, and I had my choice between sharing yours or sleeping in the rain." "Truly, huzoor." "I don't recollect that I mouthed very much about honor on that occasion. If anybody's honor was in question then, I fancy it was yours. I might have inconvenienced myself, and dishonored you, I suppose, by sleeping in the wet.

The majordomo contrived to tarry long enough to overhear as much of the conversation as needed for he understood English and then returned to the city to carry the news to Umballa. To him Umballa gave a white powder. "To-night, you say, Ramabai gives a banquet?" "Yes, Huzoor." "Well, put this in his cup and your obligation to me is paid."

But Ahmed Ismail listened to the words, not the voice, and his joy was great. It was as though he heard a renegade acknowledge once more the true faith. "Afterwards, Huzoor," he said, significantly. "Afterwards." Shere Ali nodded his head. "Yes, afterwards. When we have driven the white people down from the hills into the plains." "And from the plains into the sea," cried Ahmed Ismail.

There were guards to protect him, but it seems they did not watch well. Huzoor, all have been punished, but punishment will not bring Sahib Linforth to life again. Therefore hear the words of Wafadar Nazim, spoken now for the last time. He himself will escort you and your soldiers and officers to the borders of British territory, so that he may rejoice to know that you are safe.

Shere Ali laughed. "He told you that himself, I suppose," he said. "Huzoor, it is well known," said the old man. "He sits by the road all day until the darkness comes " "Yes," said Shere Ali, bethinking him of the recommendations in his letter, "until the darkness comes and then?" "Then he goes away into the city and no one sees him until the morning"; and the old man passed on.

The servant raised the flap of the tent. "Huzoor, the Sahib is here," he said, and at once both the voices were stilled. As Thresk stood in the doorway both the man and the woman turned. The man, with a little confusion in his manner, came quickly towards him. Over his shoulder Thresk saw Stella Ballantyne staring at him, as if he had risen from the grave.

"But sahib huzoor it is impossible. You have seen the cavalry below. How can you how could you get away?" "Unless I am your prisoner I shall certainly leave this place at once. The only other condition on which I will stay here is that you pledge your allegiance to the Company and take my orders." "Sahib, this is why huzoor " Alwa looked over to Mahommed Gunga and raised his eyebrows eloquently.