56 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



by the priest, a stalwart, clear-eyed young man, so 

 nearly naked that I feared for the susceptibilities 

 of the ladies I was accompanying; and a most 

 frightful din of tom-toms and great bells was an- 

 nouncing the fact of the deity's repletion in a man- 

 ner which, considering the desertedness of the city, 

 seemed to me superfluous as well as painful. 



That night I departed for Agra. The compart- 

 ment was all too full, and among my fellow passen- 

 gers was an extraordinary individual covered with 

 jewels, especially about his ears, in front of which 

 the hair hung long, having with him an outfit of 

 bow and arrows, a sword, and, of all incongruous 

 articles, a bag of golf-clubs. My boy, James An- 

 thony by name, informed me that he was a king, 

 but of what, heaven only knew. The train was 

 scheduled to go to Agra, but about one A. M., long 

 after we had retired, James awoke me with the 

 pleasing news that, on account of the pressure of 

 travel northwards, the train's destination would be 

 changed to Delhi, to accommodate the many pas- 

 sengers who had been unable to find accommoda- 

 tions on the regular Delhi express. A sigh of relief 

 went up from the Englishmen and the "king," 

 while I, cursing, had to dress in the cold and wait on 

 a wind-swept station platform for the next train to 

 Agra. 



