usting the little box of instruments
and simples he carried at his girdle, the Moslem astrologer spreading
his prayer carpet at the end of the veranda and prostrating himself in
the direction of Mecca.

Only the fakir had remained motionless; but now he gathered up in his
hands his wooden begging-bowl, and held it forth, crying, "Ram, Ram," in
the plaintive whine of his profession. But there was none to pay heed to
his untimely importunity. Indeed, the Bombay merchant, when the cry
smote his ears, started uneasily, and in descending the steps gave the
lean, ash-bedaubed figure of the ascetic the widest berth possible.

"Who can tell a thug from a honest man?" he asked of the magistrate in
passing.

"Who indeed can tell?" came the reply, in measured tone and with an
enigmatic smile.

* * * * *

And a minute later all had gone their several ways.

THE END.

Transcriber's Notes: Normalized punctuation and quotes
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