of emotion.

"Explain?" said the Rangar. "Who can explain foolishness? It means
that another fat general has made another fat mistake!"

"What makes you so certain she went North?" King asked.

Instead of answering, Rewa Gunga beckoned Ismail, who had stepped
back out of hearing. The giant came and loomed over them like the
Spirit of the Lamp of the Arabian Nights.

"Whither went she?" asked the Rangar.

"To the North!" he boomed.

"How knowest thou?"

"I saw her go!"

"When went she?"

"Yesterday, when a telegram came."

The word "came" was the only clue to his meaning, for in the language
he used "yesterday" and "to-morrow" are the same word; such is the
East's estimate of time.

"By what route did she go?" asked Rewa Gunga.

"By the terrain from the station."