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"After we had counted our treasures we put theate-way to show theh Then we solemnly renewed our oath to stand by each other and be true to our secret We agreed to conceal our loot in a safe place until the country should be at peace again, and then to divide it equally a it at present, for if gems of such value were found upon us it would cause suspicion, and there was no privacy in the fort nor any place where we could keep them We carried the box, therefore, into the same hall where we had buried the body, and there, under certain bricks in the best-preserved wall, we made a hollow and put our treasure We made careful note of the place, and next day I drew four plans, one for each of us, and put the sign of the four of us at the bottom, for we had sworn that we should each always act for all, so that none e That is an oath that I can put my hand to my heart and swear that I have never broken

"Well, there's no use entlemen what came of the Indian mutiny After Wilson took Delhi and Sir Colin relieved Lucknow the back of the business was broken Fresh troops ca in, and Nana Sahibcolura and cleared the Pandies away fro upon the country, and we four were beginning to hope that the tio off with our shares of the plunder In aarrested as the murderers of Achmet

"It came about in this way When the rajah put his jewels into the hands of Achmet he did it because he knew that he was a trusty man They are suspicious folk in the East, however: so what does this rajah do but take a second even more trusty servant and set him to play the spy upon the first? This second ht, and he followed hiht and saw hiht he had taken refuge in the fort, and applied for admission there himself next day, but could find no trace of Ache that he spoke about it to a sergeant of guides, who brought it to the ears of the coh search was quickly made, and the body was discovered Thus at the very ht that all was safe ere all four seized and brought to trial on a charge of ht, and the fourth because he was known to have been in the company of the murdered man Not a word about the jewels came out at the trial, for the rajah had been deposed and driven out of India: so no one had any particular interest in them The murder, however, was clearly made out, and it was certain that we ot penal servitude for life, and I was condeh my sentence was afterwards commuted into the same as the others