I will certainly come here, as soon as any serious trouble begins." That evening, after rubbing off the caste marks and assuming those of a Brahmin, and putting on the dress suitable for it--padding it largely, to give him the appearance of a stout and bulky man--he went to Nana's house.
"Will you tell the minister," he said to the doorkeeper, "that Kawerseen, a Brahmin of the Kshittree caste, desires to speak to him ?" The man gave the message to one of the attendants who, in two or three minutes, returned and asked Harry to follow him.

The minister was alone.
"What have you to say to me, holy man ?" he enquired; and then, looking more fixedly at his visitor, he exclaimed: "Why, it is Puntojee!" "You are right, Nana.

I am sent here to ascertain, if possible, what is going on, and how things are likely to tend.

But first, I must tell you that I am now here as Colonel Palmer's assistant." "I will take you entirely into my confidence," Nana said.

"Until you told me that you were an Englishman, when you took leave of me two years ago, I could not quite understand why it was that I felt I could confide in you, more than in the older men around me.