There is a great deal to smile about, Lal Singh.

Here is a treasury, guarded by seven leopards, savage as savage can be.

Only two keepers ever dare approach them, and these keepers refuse to cage the leopards without a formal order from the king or queen.

Superstition forbids Umballa to make way with the brutes.

The people, your people and mine, Lal Singh, believe that these leopards are sacred, and any who kills them commits sacrilege, and you know what that amounts to here.