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He was one of the White People. For who else would dare to speak as he had spoken of the Mullahs? The Mullahs would hear what he had said. That was certain. They would hear it with additions. They would try to make things unpleasant for him in Chiltistan in consequence. But Shere Ali was glad.
That is the key of destiny, and each man holds it in his own keeping." "A simple religion," smiled the Rajput. "And therefore the best. It is the religion of Islam freed from all the controversies of rival sects and over-learned mullahs. It is the religion of my fathers and the religion of my youth, and in it I abide.
The Hakim then raised his head a little and turned to the Sheikh. "Tell the Emir," he said, "that his friend has received a very dangerous wound, but that I hope he will live." These words were translated to the chief, but in his interpretation the old Arab omitted the hopeful clause, and said definitely that the wounded man would recover. In an instant one of the Mullahs said scornfully
"The Mullahs!" she exclaimed, remembering in what terms he was wont to speak of them to her. "Yes," he answered, "I have set them against me already. They laid their traps for me while I was on the sea, and I would not fall into them. They would have liked to raise the country against my father and the English, just as they raised it twenty-five years ago.
The Pathan tribes along the North-west Frontier were straining at the leash; Afridis, Yusufzais, Mohmands, all the Pukhtana, were restless and excited. The mullahs were preaching a holy war; and the maliks, or tribal elders, could not restrain their young men. Raids into British Indian territory were frequent. There was worse menace behind.
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