Barclay wondered whether the two men, like Nana Sahib and Bakht Khan and other figures in the great rebellion, had disappeared for ever. But a year or so later, when he was being shown over the jail at Agra by the governor, he was taken to see two notorious ruffians who were serving a term of fifteen years' imprisonment for highway robbery with violence. And remembering that Rahmut Khan had been imprisoned in that very jail, he thought it a just retribution when he recognized, in the two fettered prisoners tramping round and round at the pole of the oil-mill, Dilasah and Minghal Khan. He sent word of his discovery to the old chief, and in due time received an answer written by the village scribe, Dinga Ghosh.
"The house of the wicked shall not prosper. I would I had slain them; but what must be, will be. Allah be with thee!"
GLOSSARY
The vowels are pronounced (approximately) as in German. The accent indicates a long vowel.
almirah, cupboard.
ayah, nurse, lady's-maid.
badmásh, bad character, hooligan.