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escort there rides behind me an army in myriads.
My will is their law. In my heart is the lust of do-
minion and glory. Suppliant to my knee are come
these merchants—thousands of them—from Lahore,
Amritzar, Delhi, Lucknow, Benares, from a hundred
cities of the plain are they come, begging of me the
privilege to live, urgently praying that, for a price
paid to me, they may have their lives, their wives,
their children, their goods, all the things that were
their own until I came, until in the name of the
great gods and by might of the warriors whom the
gods gave me as a sure sign of my divine agency, I
had declared that the land with all its fatness of
men and of beast and of grain, was mine. Where-
upon I had killed many of the men (what matters
it? they must soon rot), and am now permitting
these to live, upon strict condition that they support
myself and my army, even as is meet for the Heaven-
born and his friends. And in this brown mud city
of Khotan I shall erect a great palace; shall hang it
with silken rugs, for the Khotanese slaves are famous
rug-makers; and shall establish a harem of delight,
for the women here are reputed fair above the wo-
men of all the land. Thus it was in the days that
are now as dreams. Thus it is now. Thus it shall
be again. When the great conquering lord is also a
great administrator, able to make a system by which
all the rupees shall closely come to his treasury,
whence they may go out as sufficient largess to the
small lords — then are these small lords men of
honour, like the English officials of to-day, spurning
the surreptitious silver. If the conqueror knows
not the art of the exchequer, and has not the
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