Hope is a great good thing.

If they chained us, and we broke the chains, they might send the broken links to London in proof of what thieves we be.

Who would gain by that ?" I saw a very little frown now and knew that he judged it time to strike on the heated metal.

But Gooja Singh turned his back on Ranjoor Singh.
"Let him sign this thing," said he, "and let us sign our names beneath his name.

Then he will be in the same trap with us all, and must lead us out of it or perish with us!" So Gooja Singh offered himself, all unintentionally, to be the scapegoat for us all and I have seldom seen a man so shocked by what befell him.