...He succeeded presently, for the Orakzai Pathan saw what he wanted, and in his anxiety to be agreeable, reached forward to pull back a box from between the ranks in front...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... The Pathan got up and strode forward to stand on the box, kicking aside the elbows that leaned on it and laughing when the owners cursed him...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...And wisdom was rewarded now, for the Pathan, who would have dried up under eager questioning, grew talkative...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... The temptation was terrific to ask why she had given that order, but King resisted it; and presently it occurred to the Pathan that his own theories on the subject might be of interest...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... The Pathan next King leaned over to whisper to him again, but stiffened in the act...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...“There came a Pathan to me in the Cavern of Earth's Drink with word that yonder sits a hakim...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...In a moment the Orakzai Pathan was in command of two rifles, holding them in one hand and nodding and making signs to King from among the women, whom he seemed to regard as his plunder too...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... The Orakzai Pathan crouched among the women, and the women grinned...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... He yawned and dropped both hands to his side; and it was at that instant that the Pathan sprang at him...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The fellow screamed, and the Pathan shouted “Ho!” But he did no murder yet...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The Pathan spurned them with his heel as he passed...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Let us hope he has forgotten these!” the Pathan grinned, touching the pile of rifles...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Ah, the police!” the Pathan grinned pleasantly...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Haugh!” said the Pathan, bringing down his flat hand hard on the hakim's thigh...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Would a pardon not be good?” the Pathan asked him...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...” The Pathan obeyed...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “I?” said the Pathan...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... Far in the rear King and the Pathan shoved and hauled and nearly lost their horse a dozen times at that...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Some of these are wounded,” the Pathan explained...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...So in a voice just loud enough to reach them all, he repeated what he had told the Pathan the day before...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...“The Pathan went, and he did not come back...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... He had to ride up close before he recognized the Orakzai Pathan...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Hewas a very dusky-coloured young Pathan about twenty years of age, litheand active, and honest and pleasant-looking, as Pathans go...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
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