Then he remained kneeling, with his arms crossed over his chest, and his head inclined in the attitude of the deepest humility.
"Where have you been ?" the Rajah asked.
"My lord's slave has been for three weeks at Meerut.

I have obeyed orders.

I have distributed chupaties among the native regiments, with the words, 'Watch, the time is coming,' and have then gone before I could be questioned.

Then, in another disguise, I have gone through the bazaar, and said in talk with many that the Sepoys were unclean and outcast, for that they had bitten cartridges anointed with pig's fat, and that the Government had purposely greased the cartridges with this fat in order that the caste of all the Sepoys should be destroyed.

When I had set men talking about this I left; it will be sure to come to the Sepoys' ears." The Rajah nodded.