one miracle; now let us hear another!"

"Very well. Khan is a title of respect. Since I wish for respect,
I will call myself Khan. Name me a village the first name you can
think of--quick!"

"Kurram," said Ismail, at a hazard.

"Kurram is good. Kurram I am! Kurram Khan is my name henceforward!
Kurram Khan the dakitar!"

"But where is the sahib who came from the fort to talk?" asked the
man whose stomach ached yet from Ismail and Darya Khan's attentions
to it.

"Gone!" announced King. "He went with the other one!"

"Went whither? Did any see him go?"

"Is that thy affair?" asked King, and the man collapsed. It is
not considered wise to the north of Jamrud to argue with a wizard,
or even with a man who only claims to be one. This was a man who
had changed his very nature almost under their eyes.

"Even his other clothes have gone!" murmured one man, he who had
poked about among the packs.

"And now, Ismail, Darya Khan, ye two dunder-heads!--ye bellies
without brains!--when was there ever a dakitar--a hakim, who had
not two assistants