Outside the gate Bruce Sahib and Ahmed and Lal Singh await with elephants.

Once we can join them we are safe.

And in a month's time I shall return." Meantime one of the leopard keepers rushed frantically into the throne room, exclaiming that the seven guardian leopards were at large.

Even as he spoke one of the leopards appeared in the musicians' balcony.
The panic which followed was not to be described.

A wild scramble ensued toward all exits.
The fugitives entered the royal zenana.