"Truly, sahib, but if bald-head nabbed me----"
"Hech! Are you afraid? Have you ever seen any of them about after nightfall?"
"Answer to both questions in negative, sahib."
"Where do they sleep?"
"Other side of Old Man's house, sahib; also across garden on left."
"Very well then. You can slip out of your quarters at any time--that's so?"
"Quite O.K., sahib."
"Very well. Be at yon arch two hours after lock-up, with a dark blanket, you mind."
"I am your servant, sahib."
But Hamid asked himself with much trouble of mind what notion the Mac Sahib had in his noddle.