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THE RAJAH’S TREASURE
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Between Jehun and Bimabur on the Himalayan slopes, and between the jungles and the higher country where the pines and deodars are gathered together, ruled the petty
Rajah, of whose wonderful treasure I am telling. Very great was the treasure, people said, for the Rajah had prospered1 all his days. He had found Mindapore a village,
and, behold2! it was a city. Below his fort of unhewn stone the flat-roofed huts of mud had multiplied; and now there sprang up houses with upstairs rooms, and the
place which had once boasted no more than one buniah man, engendered3 a bazaar4 in the midst of it, as a fat oyster5 secretes6 a pearl. And the Holy Place up the river
prospered, and the road up the passes was made safe. Merchants and fakirs multiplied about the wells, men came and went, twice even white men from the plain on
missions to the people over beyond the deodars, and the streets of the town were ever denser7 with poultry8 and children, and little dogs dyed yellow, and with all the
multitudinous rich odours of human increase. As at last, at the crown of his prosperity, this legend of his treasures began.
275He was a portly, yellow-faced man, with a long black beard, now steadily9 growing grey, thick lips, and shifty eyes. He was pious10, very pious in his daily routine,
and swift and unaccountable in his actions. None dared withstand him to his face, even in little things. Golam Shah, his vizier, was but a servant, a carrier of
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