The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy
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"Very well," said Kirby,
"Another drink?" "No, thanks." "Who won?" asked one of the two men in the window. "Kirby!" "I don't think so. I've been watching his face. He's the least bit rattled. It's somebody else who has won; he's been fighting another man's battle. But it's obvious who lost--look at that watch-chain going! Come away." _If a man has a price at all, his price is neither high nor low, but just that price that you will pay him._ NATIVE PROVERB. CHAPTER IV Of course an Afridi can be depended on to overdo anything. The particular Afridi whom Ranjoor Singh had kicked was able to see very little virtue in Yasmin's method of attack. Suckled in a mountain- |
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