1 CHAPTER VIII.
2 THE WUZEERUT OF HEERA SING.
3 Heera Sing immediately on being installed as Wuzeer sent
4 to Jummoo requesting the presence of his uncle, Goolaub
5 Sing, at the capital. But that wily chief prudently refused
6 to trust himself at Lahore until he was fully satisfied that
7 the troops were reduced to proper discipline and obedience,
8 and firmly attached to the cause of his nephew, which was that
9 of himself and all the Dogra faction. He had, moreover, a
10 personal reason for this unwillingness to trust himself in the
11 power of the Khalsa prematurely, in the hate which they bore
12 him for his share in the slaughter of some thousands of their
13 comrades. However, at the commencement of the cold season,
14 Rajah Goolaub Sing arrived at Lahore, where he was well re-
15 ceived by all. He found, on his arrival, that owing to petty
16 dissentions and differences among some of the Sirdars, matters
17 were not going on so smoothly as was desirable. Lena Sing
18 Majeeteea, indeed, from his belief in Goolaub's superior power
19 and interest, had been induced to agree to the measures of
20 Heera Sing, and he was now by Goolaub's influence allied
21 in seeming friendship with the Wuzeer, who before strongly
22 suspected him, in common with others, of intriguing against
23 him. Rajah Suchet Sing, however, the youngest of the Dogra
24 brothers, could not thus readily submit to the rule of his ne-
25 phew. A rancorous enmity of long standing existed betwixt
26 him and the Pundit Jellah, the chief adviser and mooktear