So, should the Company survive and retain power enough to force an answer to unpleasant questions, he thought it would not be difficult to prove that he had been the Company's friend all along.
Under all the circumstances he considered it best to be false to everybody and strike for no hand but his own, and with that reconsidered end in view he decided on a master-stroke.

He sent word to his brother, the Maharajah, saying that the Rangars had accepted service with the Company and purposed a raid on Howrah; therefore, he proposed that they unite against the common enemy and set a trap for the Rangars.
Howrah sent back to ask what proof he had of the Rangars' taking service with the British.

Jaimihr answered that Cunningham and Mahommed Gunga were both on Alwa's crag.

He also swore that as Alwa's prisoner he had been able to over-hear the Rangars' plans.
The Maharajah was bewildered, as Jaimihr had expected that he would be.

And with just as Eastern, just as muddle-headed, just as dishonest reasoning, he made up his mind to play a double game with everybody, too.