And this deprivation of his rights kindled in him a great anger against Rahat Mian.

He nursed it until he became a man and was able to buy for a couple of hundred rupees a good pedigree rifle--a rifle which had belonged to a soldier killed in a hill-campaign and for which inquiries would not be made.

Armed with his pedigree rifle, Futteh Ali Shah lay in wait vainly for Rahat Mian, until an unexpected bequest caused a revolution in his fortunes.

He went down to Bombay, added to his bequest by becoming a money-lender, and finally returned to Peshawur, in the neighbourhood of which city he had become a landowner of some importance.

Meanwhile, however, he had not been forgetful of Rahat Mian.