"Gad! but you're a cheerful counsellor," cried Chantry hotly.
"If they murder us, eh," said Aire.
"And you think they mean to, Captain Terrington?" asked Rose Chantry.
Terrington shook his head.
"Not to-morrow!" he said. "Mir Khan wouldn't expect to get the chance."
"You mean he doesn't believe we're such unqualified fools as to go there?" Sir Colvin suggested.
"That's probably how he puts it," said Terrington blandly.
"Well that gives us a chance the more," Chantry threw in.
"A chance the less, I think," said Terrington. "Blood is always a Sari man's first thought, and he'll leave no time for a second."
The agent's dark eyes glowered with a whole-souled malediction, but Sir Colvin, tapping on the table, watched in silence for some seconds while Terrington finished his meal.