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"You have failed!" whispered Fate, and a weary civilian Threw up his task as a matter of course. "Failed?" said the soldier. He knew a million Chances untackled yet. "Get me a horse!"
THAT was a strange ride of Mahommed Gunga's, and a fateful one--more full of portent for the British Raj in India than he, or the British, or the men amid whose homes he rode could ever have anticipated. He averaged a little less than twenty miles a day, and through an Indian hot-weather, and with no spare horse, none but a born horseman--a man of light weight and absolute control of temper--could have accomplished that for thirty days on end.