Certainly the bull was found slaughtered behind the monkey temple, and certainly Dr.Roberts had beefsteak for breakfast that day.

Such a clamour rang through the palace about it that the Maharajah sent for the missionary, partly to inquire into the matter, and partly with a view to protect him.
It was very unsatisfactory--the missionary did not know how the bull came to be killed behind his house, and, in spite of all the Maharajah's hints, would not invent a story to account for it.

The Maharajah could have accounted for it fifty times over, if it had happened to him.

Besides, Dr.Roberts freely admitted having breakfasted upon beefsteak, and didn't know where it had come from! He rode home through an angry crowd, and nobody at all came for medicines that day.
Two days later the Rajput general's baby died--could anything else have been expected?
The general went straight to the Maharajah to ask for vengeance, but His Highness, knowing why the chief had come, sent word that he was ill--he would see Maun Rao to-morrow.
To-morrow he had not recovered, nor even the day after; but in the meantime he had been well enough to send word to Dr.Roberts that if he wished to go away he should have two camels and an escort.
Dr.Roberts sent to ask whether Sunni might go with him, but to this the Maharajah replied by an absolute 'No.' So the missionary stayed.
It was Surji Rao who brought the final word to the Maharajah.
'My father and my mother!' he said, 'it is no longer possible to hold the people back.

It is cried abroad that this English hakkim[7] has given the people powder of pig's feet.