What! After all these weeks of waiting, to let sleep stand between them and thousands of rupees! Dogs! Pigs! Did they not recollect that Bala Khan had a way of nailing thieves outside the walls of his city?
Well, he for one would not wait.

He would mount the sacred white elephant and head toward the caves in the hills.

Let them who would decorate the walls of Bala Khan.

The threat of Bala Khan put life into the eight followers, and they were getting ready to move on, when one of them discovered a small caravan approaching from the west.
Camels?
Ha! Here was a chance of leaving Bala Khan's city far in the rear.

And there would be loot besides.