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Rh "Very well," Dilâl had said to himself, deep down in his passionate heart, "they call me bad names! It may be I shall deserve them! Scorpion sting; Dilâl may sting too! It is not good to put a stranger in a strange land to shame; he will not forget."

But his Missy sahib liked this bad Bobby, odd as it was. And, to the devotion of the man, this was enough to protect the Budmash ("Evil-walker") for the present. So he now asked submissively,—

"Missy wants me to go and bring Bobby sahib to her?"

"Yes, Dilâl, bring him."

The tall, white-robed figure moved away. He had no notion where the boy might be; that was no matter, he would look till he found him. Bobby was not indoors, he discovered. He came out again, into the back garden, and, as a sudden thought struck him, he turned down