“Nay, sahib! I am not of your command. I have done my duty to the Raj, and I now go about my own business.”
“And that is?”
“To repay a debt that I owe the Raj, sahib!”
“Your answers are rather unnecessarily evasive, Juggut Khan. Be good enough to explain yourself!”
“I ride back to Jailpore, sahib. I would have stayed there, but it seemed right and soldierly to bring through the news first. Now, I return to do what I may to rescue those whom I hid there. I owe that to the Raj!”
“You mean that you will ride alone?”
“At least half of the distance, sahib. I had a favor to ask.”
“Well?”
“Are you marching north, sahib?”
“I have not determined yet.”