bjection...
a Lawless and Predatory Peop...
....taching them to...ish Government
by a Conquest over....Minds
The most perma...and rational Mode of Domini..
...Governor General and Counc...engal
have ordered thi.....erected
....arted this Life Aug. 19, 184..Ag...

On the other side of the grave were ancient verses, also very worn. As
much as Chinn could decipher said:

....the savage band
Forsook their Haunts and b.....is Command
....mended..rais check a...st for spoil.
And.s.ing Hamlets prove his gene....toil.
Humanit...survey......ights restor..
A Nation..ield..subdued without a Sword.

For some little time he leaned on the tomb thinking of this dead man
of his own blood, and of the house in Devonshire; then, nodding to the
plains: "Yes; it's a big work all of it even my little share. He must
have been worth knowing.... Bukta, where are my people?"

"Not here, Sahib. No man comes here except in full sun. They wait above.
Let us climb and see."

But Chinn, remembering the first law of Oriental diplomacy, in an even
voice answered: "I have come this far only because the Satpura folk are
foolish, and dared not visit our lines. Now bid them wait on me here. I
am not a servant, but the master of Bhils."

"I go--I go," clucked the old man. Night was falling, and at any moment
Jan Chinn might whistle up his dreaded steed from the darkening scrub.

Now for the first time in a long life Bukta disobeyed a lawful command
and deserted his leader; for he did not come back, but pressed to the
flat table-top of the hill, and called softly. Men stirred all about
him--little trembling men with bows and arrows who had watched the two
since noon.

"Where is he?" whispered one.

"At his own place. He bids you come," said Bukta.

"Now?"

"Now."

"Rather let him loose the Clouded Tiger upon us. We do not go."

"Nor I, though I bore him in my arms when he was a child in this his
life. Wait here till the day."

"But surely he will be angry."

"He will be very angry, for he has nothing to eat. But he has said to me
many times that the Bhils are his children. By sunlight I believe this,
but--by moonlight I am not so sure. What folly have ye Satpura pigs
compassed that ye should need him at all?"

"One came to us in the name of the Government with little ghost-knives
and a magic calf,