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"'But what is the treasure, then?' I asked 'I am as ready to be rich as you can be, if you will but show me how it can be done'

"'You will swear, then,' said he, 'by the bones of your father, by the honor of your mother, by the cross of your faith, to raise no hand and speak no word against us, either now or afterwards?'

"'I will swear it,' I answered, 'provided that the fort is not endangered'

"'Then my comrade and I will swear that you shall have a quarter of the treasure which shall be equally divided a the four of us'

"'There are but three,' said I

"'No; Dost Akbar must have his share We can tell the tale to you while ait theive notice of their co stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringhee, and that we h you had sworn by all the gods in their false temples, your blood would have been upon the knife, and your body in the water But the Sikh knows the Englishlishman knows the Sikh Hearken, then, to what I have to say

"'There is a rajah in the northern provinces who has h his lands are small Much has come to him from his father, and more still he has set by hiold rather than spend it When the troubles broke out he would be friends both with the lion and the tiger,--with the Sepoy and with the Company's Raj Soon, however, it seeh all the land he could hear of nothing but of their death and their overthrow Yet, being a careful ht, half at least of his treasure should be left to hiold and silver he kept by him in the vaults of his palace, but the most precious stones and the choicest pearls that he had he put in an iron box, and sent it by a trusty servant who, under the guise of a ra, there to lie until the land is at peace Thus, if the rebels won he would have his money, but if the Co thus divided his hoard, he threw hi upon his borders By doing this, mark you, Sahib, his property becomes the due of those who have been true to their salt