It is well decided.

But the Rajputs are all sons of one father, and even now there is grief among the chief of them that outcasts should be dwelling in the King's favour.' 'I will not make the road,' said the Maharajah.

'Enough!' Surji Rao thought it was not quite enough, however, and took various means to obtain more, means that would never be thought of anywhere but in countries where the sun beats upon the plots of Ministers and ferments fanaticism in the heads of the people.

He talked to the Rajput chiefs, and persuaded them--they were not difficult to persuade--that Dr.Roberts was an agent and a spy of the English Government at Calcutta, that his medicines were a sham.
When it was necessary, Surji Rao said that the medicines were a slow form of poison, but generally he said they were a sham.

He persuaded as many of the chiefs as dared, to remonstrate with the Maharajah, and to follow his example of going about looking as if they were upon the brink of some terrible disaster.