The advent of this prosperous Hawke had made the great social deeps of Delhi to boil like a pot.

His mission was one of those things no fellow could find out.
Laughing in his sleeve, the object of all this sudden curiosity made a number of detours, and adroitly followed a native servant down an obscure rear street, after dismissing his pony carriage.

The equipage was busied during the earlier hours of the day in leaving the visiting cards of the returned soldier of fortune in certain quarters well calculated to attract social notice.
Threading the spacious gardens in rear of Ram Lal's establishment, the artful Major entered the jewel merchant's abode without the notice of the morning gossips of the Chandnee Chouk.

"All right, now," he laughed, as he bade the sly merchant set a private guard to prevent all intrusion upon their privacy.

"I think that I have thrown these fellows off the track very neatly!" he laughed.