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expelled the place with ignominy. It subse- 

 quently came out that the reason of the astro- 

 loger appearing at all was his o^ti fear that 

 his accomplice, Heyloo, might be flogged into 

 confession ; so he volunteered his services, and 

 boldly asserted the innocence of the two 

 prisoners. My informant said that he sup- 

 posed the boy selected Reyloo and the other 

 man, on a secret hint from the Seyud, Gholaum 

 Hyder Shah, who was intently watching the 

 countenances of the parties assembled, and felt 

 sure that the thief was amongst them. The 

 Seyud, however, strenuously denied this to my- 

 self, and declared that he believed the dis- 

 covery had been made entirely through the 

 science of ''Hazirat." I confess my own scep- 

 ticism in the matter, but my Khyrpoor friends 

 were all against me, though, when robbed them- 

 selves, some adopted simpler and, to my think- 

 ing, more certain means of discovering the 

 pilferer. One of them liaving been repeatedly 

 robbed of his sugar-candy, which was kept in 

 an open earthen vessel in a small inner-room, 

 with tobacco for his hookah, conserve of roses, 

 and other choice matters, bethought him of a 

 way to discover the thief, and did so in this 



