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Why should the maharajah want my property?" "He hunts high and low for the Sialpore treasure. Jengal Singh, who built this house, was in the confidence of Gungadhura's uncle, and a priest says there will be a clue found to the treasure beneath the floor of this house." "A likely tale indeed!" "Very well, then lose thine house!" Yasmini turned on a disdainful heel and started down-hill.
"These notes on the edge of the map are probably in the hand of Jengal Singh, who stole it. He died of snake-bite more than a year ago. They are in Persian; he notes that four of the trees are dead and only their roots remain; therefore that measurements must allow for that. You must find the roots of the last tree, Mr.
"Priests cackle like old women," growled the money-lender. "Nay, but this one cackled to the god. Jengal Singh died and his son, who ought to know, claims that the house was really sold to Dhulap Singh, who dallies with his suit because he suspects, but does not know, that Mukhum Dass has lost the paper eh?" "How do you know these things?" "Maybe the god Jinendra told!
"There was another matter that she told me," said the priest. "Repeat it then, Belly-of-Jinendra! Thy paunch retains a tale too long!" "Tripe, the drill-master, is a welcome guest at the house built by Jengal Singh." "What of it?" "He may enter even when the sahibs are away from home. The servants have orders to admit him." "Well?" The priest smiled again.
He was superstitious enough to believe in the alleged vision of Jinendra's priest, that the clue to the treasure of Sialpore would be found in the cellar of that house, where Jengal Singh had placed it; impious enough to double-cross the priest, and to use any means whatever, foul preferred, to get possession of the clue.
He had not been able to resist that opportunity, when Patali reported to him what Mukhum Dass had been seen to make away with. And now he had the secret of the treasure in his possession implicit directions, and a map! He suspected they had been written by some old priest, or former rajah's servant, in the hope of a chance for treachery, and hidden away by Jengal Singh with the same object.
Which would be better, Mukhum Dass to keep great silence, and be certain to receive the paper in time to defend the lawsuit, or to talk freely, and so set others talking?" Who knows that it might not reach the ears of Jengal Singh that the title-deed is truly lost?" "He who tells secrets to a priest," swore the money-lender, "would better have screamed them from the housetop. "Nay the god heard.
There were notes on the margins by Jengal Singh. The thing was obviously genuine. But the worst of it was Patali knew all about it now, and that cursed idiot Blaine had complained to Samson of burglary, after he learned that the cellar door was broken open by the money-lender. Why hadn't he come to himself, he wondered, and been satisfied with a string of promises?
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