'Put no more guards over me. It is no good out yonder.'
A week later I saw him for the first time to my knowledge, and he made as though there were an understanding between us.
'It was well done, Sahib,' said he, 'and greatly I admired your astuteness in thus boldly facing the troops when I, whom they would have doubtless torn to pieces, was with you. Now there is a man in Fort Ooltagarh whom a bold man could with ease help to escape. This is the position of the Fort as I draw it on the sand—'
But I was thinking how I had become Lalun's Vizier after all.