...The Pathan leaned past King to stab, but paused in the instant that his knife licked clear... 
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Nay, I have all I need!” he answered, and the Pathan laughed...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...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」
...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 nudged King in the ribs with an elbow like a club and tickled his ear with hot breath...
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 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」
... The Pathan grinned, and undid the button...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Ah, the police!” the Pathan grinned pleasantly...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... The Pathan nodded...
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」
... Instead of the mullah, growling texts out of a Quran on his lap, the Orakzai Pathan sat and sunned himself in the cave mouth, emitting worldlier wisdom unadulterated with divinity...
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」
...My brother yonder in the cave mouth”--(The Pathan smirked...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... They all laughed at that and seizing the moment when they were in a pliant mood the Orakzai Pathan proceeded to bring proposals to a head...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “There--take it! Make speed!” he ordered, and with his rifle at the “ready” and the letter tucked inside his shirt, the Pathan favored King with a farewell grin and obeyed...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... “Aye!” said the Orakzai Pathan, drawing King aside...
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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