smell something?"

"They've been sweating, certainly."

"Do they smell a rat?"

"Yes."

"Ask questions?"

"Yes."

"What do you tell them?"

"That I don't know, and they must wait until I do."

"Any recent efforts been made to tamper with them?"

"Not more than I reported. You know, of course, of the translations
from Canadian papers, discussing the rejection of Sikh immigrants?
Each man received a copy through the mail."

"Yes. We caught the crowd who printed that. Couldn't discover,
though, how it got into the regiment's mail bags without being
postmarked. Let's see--wasn't Ranjoor Singh officer-of-the-day?"

"Yes."

"Um-m-m! Would it surprise you to know that Ranjoor Singh visits
Yasmini?"