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_Scene._ Pavilion and Dome Hospital, Brighton -- 1915.
_What talk is this, Doctor Sahib? This Sahib says he will be my letter-writer? Just as though he were a bazar letter-writer at home? . What are the Sahib's charges? Two annas? Too much! I give one. No. No! Sahib. You shouldn't have come down so quickly. You've forgotten, we Sikhs always bargain. Well; one anna be it. I will give a bond to pay it out of my wound-pension when I get home. Sit by the side of my bed._