They laid their traps for me while I was on the sea, and I would not fall into them.

They would have liked to raise the country against my father and the English, just as they raised it twenty-five years ago.

And they would have liked me to join in with them." He related to Violet the story of his meeting with Safdar Khan at the Gate of Lahore, and he repeated the words which he had used in Safdar Khan's hearing.
"It did not take long for my threats to be repeated in the bazaar of Kohara, and from the bazaar they were quickly carried to the ears of the Mullahs.

I had proof of it," he said with a laugh.
Violet asked him anxiously for the proof.
"I can tell to a day when the words were repeated in Kohara.

For a fortnight after my coming the Mullahs still had hopes.