"Peace! Peace, Maharajah sahib! Out of anger came no wise counsel yet!"
"She has been to the commissioner's house!"
"I know it."
"You know it? Then she told you?"
The priest was about to lie, but Gungadhura saved him.
"I know she was here," he burst out. "My men followed her home."
"Yes, she was here. She told."
"How did you make her tell? The she-devil is more cunning than a cobra!"
Jinendra's high priest smiled complacently.
"A servant of the gods, such as I am, is not altogether without power.
I found a way. She told."