"'Yes.'
"'But is the Sahib certain that this boy is the child of certain parents?'
"'Yes.'
"'Then will the Sahib take him?'
"'Yes.'
"Here the poor boy placed his hands together and supplicated the Major to let him remain where he then was, in the service of the Affghan dealer. Heedless of this interruption, which was soon silenced, the examination—or rather the conversation, as it now became—was continued:—
"'What will you give for him?'
"'What do you ask?'
"'You must speak, Sahib.'