Fraser as his oldest and most valued friend.[10] Mr. Fraser told him
that he considered the Nawab to be still but a boy, and the only way
to improve him was to treat him as such. It was, however, more by
these slights than by any supposed injuries that Shams-ud-din was
exasperated; and from that day he determined to have Mr. Fraser
assassinated.[11]
Having prevailed upon a man, Karim Khan, who was at once his servant
and boon companion, he sent him to Delhi with one of his carriages,
which he was to have sold through Mr. McPherson, a European merchant
of the city. He was ordered to stay there ostensibly for the purpose
of learning the process of extracting copper from the fossil
containing the ore, and purchasing dogs for the Nawab. He was to
watch his opportunity and shoot Mr. Fraser whenever he might find him
out at night, attended by only one or two orderlies; to be in no
haste, but to wait till he found a favourable opportunity, though it
should be for several months. He had with him a groom named Rupla,
and a Mewati attendant named Ania, and they lodged in apartments of
the Nawab's at Daryaoganj.
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