Yet I knew that Pertab Singh was all the while in London.

I asked them where was Ranjoor Singh all this while, and for a time they made no answer, so I asked again and again.

Then one day they began to talk of Ranjoor Singh.
They told us he was being very useful to them, in Berlin, in daily conference with the German General Staff, explaining matters that pertained to the intended invasion of India.

Doubtless they thought that news would please us greatly.

But, having heard so many lies already, I set that down for another one, and the others became all the more determined in their loyalty from sheer disgust at Ranjoor Singh's unfaithfulness.