It was here in the coat of that one who is a sergeant--the other being
a soldier."
He put the leather case within the bosom of his shirt, adding: "This
may even be of value to the Dewan. Beyond that, there was little of
loot upon these dogs of the Englay--eight rupees. The coats and the
turbans we will burn."
Hunsa stooped down and slipped the sandals from the feet of the one
Sookdee had pointed out as the officer.
"The footwear is of little value, but we will take the brass cooking
pots of the merchant," Sookdee said, eyeing this performance; there was
suspicion in his eyes lighted from the flare of their camp fires.
"Sookdee," Hunsa said, "you have the Englay leather packet, but they do
not send _sowars_ through the land of the Mahratta with the real
message written on the back of the messenger. In quiet I will rip
apart the soles of this footwear. Do you that with the saddles;
therein is often hidden the true writing. In the slaying of these two
we have acquired a powerful enemy, the English, and the message, if
there be one, might be traded for our lives.
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