CHAPTER VI

* * * * * It was a week later when I had my audience, for I took time to consider my request and for two days Haridas was engaged with matters of more importance than my questions. I must own my doubts of the wisdom of discussing my affairs with him were reviving when at last we met by the waterfall, he, to my surprise, dressed like a Kashmiri mountaineer for the climb and shod with the native _chaplis_, or leather sandals, which certainly gave a better grip on the slippery grass than my…