"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-