Ihad not the ability to formulate a
plan.
He whose name is Rammy shall offend first. Grim
talked you into giving me the gate, though you deniedit at the time. I felt as if my
will were bound with cords, exactly as my handshad been. Illtell you what, Rammy:
youve had a raw deal and somethings comingto you. The stuff he had forced through my
teeth had made me speechless. He was not; he was facing the enemy, hilt high,
hissaber looking like a beam of sunlight.
The causeway wasirregular and there were ice and
snow in patches all the way along.
Then I heard Grims voice:All right, Narayan
Singh.
We stamp pain on the memory and kill out even the
suggestion of apossibility of mercy.
Our hands were tied, so we could not fend ourselves
away fromlumps of ice that lay across the path.
The odds were tento one that those who pursued him
had found and killed him. I told him that Grim was missing and that my plan was to
get theponies ready.
Jimgrim went in there and closed the
door.
Hedied thinking you are on your way to
India.
ThenI went down under half a dozen men, whose
greasy bodies stank ofthe accumulated filth of years. His head split down the middle
as a saber struck him from behind.
His head split down the middle as a saber struck
him from behind.
Almostat once he began to recover and tried to sit
up but was promptlyknocked down again.
I obeyed him when he orderedme to put my clothes
on. Then I heard Grims voice:All right, Narayan Singh. The causeway wasirregular and
there were ice and snow in patches all the way along. The surface had coarsened, in
the way a drunkards face does.
I have no idea what speed we made, orwhat distance
we covered. What little landscape I could see was swimming in a mist
ofblood-red.
But it sounded morelike a boast intended to make me
lose confidence in my own senses.
Allmy work would have to be repeated before you
could hope to managehim.