'"Miss Sahib," sez I; "going to the station? _Captain Sahib's_ order!"
an' widout a sign she jumped in all among her own kit.
'I laid to an' dhruv like steam to the Colonel's house before the
Colonel was there, an' she screamed an' I thought she was goin' off.
Out comes the ayah, saying all sorts av things about the Capt'n havin'
come for the kit an' gone to the station.
'"Take out the luggage, you divil," sez I, "or I'll murther you!"
'The lights av the thraps people comin' from the Gaff was showin'
across the parade ground, an', by this an' that, the way thim two women
worked at the bundles an' thrunks was a caution! I was dyin' to help,
but, seein' I didn't want to be known, I sat wid the blanket roun' me
an' coughed an' thanked the Saints there was no moon that night.
'Whin all was in the house again, I niver asked for _bukshish_ but
dhruv tremenjus in the opp'site way from the other carr'ge an' put out
my lights. Presintly, I saw a naygur man wallowin' in the road. I
slipped down before I got to him, for I suspicioned Providence was wid
me all through that night. 'Twas Jungi, his nose smashed in flat, all
dumb sick as you please.
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