noon
He begged them to remember him in their future greatnesses , for he ` opined subtly ' that he , even he , Mohendro Lal Dutt , MA of Calcutta , had ` done the State some service ' . They gave him a certificate praising his courtesy , helpfulness , and unerring skill as a guide . He put it in his waist-belt and sobbed with emotion ; they had endured so many dangers together . He led them at high noon along crowded Simla Mall to the Alliance Bank of Simla , where they wished to establish their identity . Thence he vanished like a dawn-cloud on Jakko . Behold him , too fine-drawn to sweat , too pressed to vaunt the drugs in his little brass-bound box , ascending Shamlegh slope , a just man made perfect . Watch him , all Babudom laid aside , smoking at noon on a cot , while a woman with turquoise-studded headgear points south-easterly across the bare grass .