[14]. Scarf.
‘Kubool! I agree,’ said the lady; he will kill by the blessing of Alla,—I feel sure he will.’
But Kasim’s gun went down.
‘He is too far off yet,’ she said: and he was. He saw a mound at a little distance from him, and tried to reach it, crawling on as before.
But the deer saw him. He observed their alarm, and lay motionless. They all got up and looked:—he did not move. The buck trotted forward a few paces, saw what it was, and ere the young man could get his gun to his shoulder as he lay, he had turned.
‘I told you so,’ cried the Khan; ‘they are off, and I have won.’
‘There is yet a chance,’ said Ameena anxiously.
‘I said he would not kill,’ said the cook; ‘we shall have no venison.’