She essayed a frown, she essayed a smile, and then she said, 'Really, you are too foolish----Jack!' * * * * * And so in the years to come, the old Thakoor of Dhurmkote will no doubt rescind his reproof, and, having forgotten Jerry, will call another little laddie 'a son of heroes.' And he may be; but Jack Raymond himself will keep that name for a boy who, by that time, will be at Eton or Harrow. And that boy will think of the graves in the Hollow of Heroes, and wonder if Jân-Ali-shân ever came back to claim his. He has not yet, and so the two hundred and odd thousand people in the city of Nushapore, and the fifty thousand people in cantonments, still expect him to be there some day, _when he is wanted_. And he will, no doubt; for it is only the Spirit of Slaves that dies; the Spirit of Kings lives for ever. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Barrister.] [Footnote 2: Members of Municipal Committee.] [Footnote 3: The Mohammedan Easter.] [Footnote 4: Failed for middle school examination; a very general claim to culture in India.] [Footnote 5: In India, members can buy provisions or wines imported by their club.] [Footnote 6: Measure.] [Footnote 7: _Nigar bani_, lit. looking at, favouritism.] [Footnote 8: Straight, fair.] [Footnote 9: Lit. earth, a corpse.] [Footnote 10: Lit. outcast.] [Footnote 11: Worshipper of Shiva.] [Footnote 12: The king of death; his emblem is a crocodile, _i.e_. death will be busy.] [Footnote 13: _Hansi-ki-bat_, lit. smiling word.] [Footnote 14: The true faith.] [Footnote 15: _Ikbal_, lit. power, prestige.] [Footnote 16: Post-office.] [Footnote 17: Doctors.] [Footnote 18: Models of the tombs of Hussan and Hussein.] * * * * * Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press End of Project Gutenberg's Voices in the Night, by Flora Annie Steel