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264 white muslin to a level with her eager face.

"I wish that you find Bobby for me!"

If any change of expression ever came into the Hindu's still face, a slight curl of his lip at mention of Bobby's name changed it now.

"I had not seen that Bobby sahib was absent," he said calmly.

"He is very bad to be absent!" Moti said, and there was a sob in her voice which made Dilâl angry with its cause.

"Bobby sahib is a Budmash," he replied, "He is always bad." For the servant had not forgiven Bobby either his pushing his little cousin and making her fall, or the title of "Scorpion." Bobby was not sensitive, but he was aware of Dilâl's dislike, and kept away from him.

Moti had told him all that Bobby had said on that unfortunate afternoon, adding that her Aunt Maysie had said that he was like a scorpion.