They have both the corpse and the witnesses waiting . ' ` But can not the Government protect ? ' ` We of the Game are beyond protection . If we die , we die . Our names are blotted from the book . That is all . At Bandakui , where lives one of Us , I thought to slip the scent by changing my face , and so made me a Mahratta . Then I came to Agra , and would have turned back to Chitor to recover the letter . So sure I was I had slipped them . Therefore I did not send a tar -LSB- telegram -RSB- to any one saying where the letter lay . I wished the credit of it all . ' Kim nodded . He understood that feeling well . ` But at Agra , walking in the streets , a man cried a debt against me , and approaching with many witnesses , would hale me to the courts then and there . Oh , they are clever in the South ! He recognized me as his agent for cotton . May he burn in Hell for it ! ' ` And wast thou ? ' ' O fool ! I was the man they sought for the matter of the letter !
I ran into the Fleshers ' Ward and XXXXX out by the House of the Jew , who feared a riot and pushed me forth .
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