When he reached their lodgings, he found Ania there before him; and
Rupla, the groom, seeing his horse in a sweat, told him that he had
had a narrow escape--that Mr. Fraser had been killed, and orders
given for the arrest of any horseman that might be found in or near
the city. He told him to hold his tongue, and take care of the horse;
and calling for a light, he and Ania tore up every letter he had
received from Firozpur, and dipped the fragments in water, to efface
the ink from them. Ania asked him what he had done with the
blunderbuss, and was told that it had been thrown into a well. Ania
now concealed three flints that he kept about him in some sand in the
upper story they occupied, and threw an iron ramrod and two spare
bullets into a well near the mosque.
The next morning, when he heard that the city gates had been all shut
to prevent any one from going out till strict search should be made,
Karim became a good deal alarmed, and went to seek counsel from
Moghal Beg, the friend of his master; but when in the evening he
heard that they had been again opened, he recovered his spirits; and
the next day he wrote a letter to the Nawab, saying that he had
purchased the dogs that he wanted, and would soon return with them.
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