` 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 came out by the House of the Jew , who feared a riot and pushed me forth . I came afoot to Somna Road -- I had only money for my tikkut to Delhi -- and there , while I lay in a ditch with a fever , one sprang out of the bushes and beat me and cut me and searched me from head to foot . Within earshot of the terain it was ! ' ` Why did he not slay thee out of hand ? ' ` They are not so foolish . If I am taken in Delhi at the instance of lawyers , upon a proven charge of murder , my body is handed over to the State that desires it . I go back guarded , and then -- I die slowly for an example to the rest of Us . The South is not my country . I run in circles -- like a goat with one eye . I have not eaten for two days . I am marked ' -- he touched the filthy bandage on his leg -- ` so that they will know me at Delhi . ' ` Thou art safe in the te-rain , at least . ' ` Live a year at the Great Game and tell me that again !
The wires will be out against me at XXXXX , describing every tear and rag upon me .
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