So sure was I that none knew, I did not change my face.

At Mhow a woman brought charge against me of theft of jewellery in that city which I had left.
Then I saw the cry was out against me.

I ran from Mhow by night, bribing the police, who had been bribed to hand me over without question to my enemies in the South.

Then I lay in old Chitor city a week, a penitent in a temple, but I could not get rid of the letter which was my charge.

I buried it under the Queen's Stone, at Chitor, in the place known to us all.' Kim did not know, but not for worlds would he have broken the thread.
'At Chitor, look you, I was all in Kings' country; for Kotah to the east is beyond the Queen's law, and east again lie Jaipur and Gwalior.
Neither love spies, and there is no justice.