« Here are discussed by courtesans the things which are supposed to be profoundest secrets of the India Council; and here gather all the sub-sub-agents of Half the Native States. Here, too, Mahbub Ali rented a room, much more securely locked than his bulkhead at Lahore, in the house of a Mohamemedan cattle-dealer. It was a place of miracles, too, for there went in at twilight a Mahommedan horse-boy, and there came out an hour later a Eurasian lad - the Lucknow girl's dye was of the best - in badly fitting shop-clothes. »