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2 HISTORY OP THE SIKHS, V 1 ! I
3 Lahore, where it was reported lie had taken service
4 with the Maharajah, Two men were accordingly
5 Rejected from the regiment for the purpose of pro¬
6 ceeding to the Punjab and discovering the murderer,
7 who was well known to both. They were , dis¬
8 guised in plain clothes, and on reaching Lahore,
9 had the Maharajah’s permission to. take every
10 opportunity of examining his troops, in order to
11 discover the murderer. One of the men was a
12 Mussulman, and the other a Hindoo. The former
13 whs diligent in his search and enquiries, but the
14 latter soon gave up .both, was often at the Durbar,
15 and received particular attentions from the Jemadar,
16 Khoosliyal Singh. One day the Mussulman ob¬
17 served the man he was in search of; he was a
18 gunner in the Jemadar’s service. On ascertaining
19 this point, he gave notice to the Maharajah that
20 he had found out the murderer. He was summoned
21 to the Durbar, and requested to state the particulars
22 of his discovery, The Maharajah immediately
23 referred to Kooshyai Singh, ordering him to deliver
24 up the murderer. The Jemadar asserted 'that no
25 such individual was in his service, and dared the
26 informer to point him out. The Mussulman re¬
27 marked, that he might not then be able to do so,
28 as means might have been taken to get rid of him,
29 but he maintained that he had seep him among the
30 Jemadar’s artillerymen. Though every way in¬
31 clined to .show the utmost attention to the wishes
32 of the British agent in discovering the murderer,
33 the Maharajah saw readily, how difficult, a task it