They were prepared to abide by the terms of the will so long as it remained clear to them that fair treatment came from the opposing interests.

Rasula, the Aratat lawyer, in mass meeting, had discussed the document.

They understood its requirements and its restrictions; they knew, by this time, that there was small chance of the original beneficiaries coming into the property under the provisions.

Moreover, they knew that a bitter effort would be made to break this remarkable instrument in the English courts.

Their attitude, in consequence, toward the grandchildren of their former lords was inimical, to say the least.
"We can afford to wait a year," Rasula had said in another mass meeting after the two months of suspense which preceded the discovery that grandchildren really existed.