Ramabai produced the jeweled triangle.
"The prince has made this order imperative," he said.

"Colonel Hare will proceed in my custody." "Where is Durga Ram ?" "At the bungalow of Colonel Hare, where he found the daughter." Ah, that cleared up everything.

Umballa had some definite plan in releasing Colonel Hare.

It would confuse the public, who had been given to understand that the hunter was dead; but they would claim that it was an affair of state, in nowise concerning the populace.

So Colonel Hare was brought up.