CHAPTER XX

* * * * * We Englishmen marched with the khan’s troops next morning, leaving a guard for the town of Satshang and the castle, and Lady Lucia in the khanum’s care. Perhaps it would be truer to say the khanum was in her care for her perfect self-possession was an armed guard wherever she went. It was a part of her yoga that people turned naturally to her in trouble, leaned upon her and took her strength for theirs. I remember Ormond saying one day that she made everyone about her feel grea…