Then at a signal from their sardar (leader), they bound Chandra Babu hand and foot and squatted round him in a circle.

The sardar thus addressed him: "Babuji, do you know us?" "How can I know you?" groaned their victim.

" "Indeed!" replied the sardar sarcastically; "you have been the ruin of us all.

The sardar came close to him and asked: "Look at me carefully: do you know me?" "No bábá, but you are my son.

"I am Karim Sheikh," said the sardar impressively.

So, too, thought Fatima, for she waylaid her son one afternoon and said: "Ramzán, I cannot stand this life any longer; let me go to my brother Mahmud Sardar, the cooly-catcher".