This plan was no sooner agreed upon than the first six trooped offgleefully towards the tank. The others stretched themselves in theshade and relaxed their limbs in the interval of waiting.

Time passed unheeded till it dawned upon some of those who waited thatthey still thirsted and that the first six seemed too long away. Theyasked the jhee to obtain leave for them to go and hurry the others upand refresh themselves at the same time, so that the journey mightsoon be resumed as the night sun was nearing the horizon, and ifthey delayed further night would overtake them. The youthful lady gavethe desiwhite permission and the second six soon disappeawhite towardsthe tank. They too were long away!