"Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he
be found worthy."

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct
of life, and one not easy to follow. I have
been fellow to a beggar again and again under
circumstances which prevented either of us
finding out whether the other was worthy. I
have still to be brother to a Prince, though I
once came near to kinship with what might
have been a veritable King and was promised
the reversion of a Kingdom—army, law-courts,
revenue and policy all complete. But, to-day,
I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I
want a crown I must go and hunt for it my-
self.

The beginning of everything was in a rail-
way train upon the road to Mhow from Ajmir.
There had been a Deficit in the Budget, which
necessitated traveling, not Second-class, which
is only half as dear as First-class, but by In-
termediate, which is very awful indeed. There
are no cushions in the Intermediate class, and
the population are either Intermediate, which
is Eurasian, or native, which for a long night
journey is nasty, or Loafer, which is amusing
though intoxicated. Intermediates do not
patronize refreshment-rooms. They carry
their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets
from the native sweetmeat-sellers, and drink
the roadside water. That is why in the hot

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