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Bubru Singh my father died without a son the first of all that long line who left no son to follow him. The custom was that he should tell his son, and none else, the secret of the treasure.
For Bubru Singh, her maharajah, died of an accident very shortly after the birth of their child Yasmini. Now law is law, and Sonia Omanoff, then legally the Princess Sonia Singh, had appealed from the first to Indian law and custom, so that the British might have felt justified in leaving her and her infant daughter to its most untender mercies.
The fact that the first wife was childless doubtless influenced Bubru Singh. They even say she was so far beside herself with love for him that she would have been satisfied with the Gandharva marriage ceremony sung by so many Rajput poets, that amounts to little more than going off alone together.
"But tell me about yourself," Tess insisted, offering the cigarettes again. And this time her guest accepted one. "My mother was the Russian wife of Bubru Singh, who had no son. I am the rightful maharanee of Sialpore, only those fools of English put my father's nephew on the throne, saying a woman can not reign. They are no wiser than apes!
"The first man began accumulating treasure. Every single rajah since has added to it. Each man has confided the secret to his successor and to none else father to son, you understand. When Bubru Singh, the last man, died he had no son. The secret died with him." "How does anybody know that there's a secret then?" demanded Tess. "Everybody knows it! The money was raised by taxes.
Out of sight of privileged men prudery has no place, and almost no advocates all the way from Peshawar to Cape Comorin. And Yasmini had loved dancing since the days when she tottered her first steps for her mother's and Bubru Singh's delight.
Only you mustn't repeat it. The present maharajah, Gungadhura, isn't the saving kind; he's a spender. He'd give his eyes to get hold of that treasure. And if he had it, we'd need an army to suppress him. We made a mistake when Bubru Singh died; there were two nephews with about equal claims, and we picked the wrong one a born intriguer. I'd call him a rascal if he weren't a reigning prince.
Traveling abroad has since become rather fashionable, and is even encouraged by the British-Indian Government because there is no longer any plausible means of preventing it; but Maharajah Bubru Singh was a pioneer, who dared greatly, and had his way even against the objections of a high commissioner.
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