Immediately, a number of closely veiled figures entered, completely filling the end of the room.
"These are the young men," Tippoo said to them.

"It is the one on the right to whom it is chiefly due that the tiger did not commit havoc among you.

It was he who climbed up the balcony, and fired twice at the beast.

You owe your lives to him and his companion, for among all my officers and guards there was not one who was quick-witted enough to move as much as a finger." There was a faint murmur of surprise, among the veiled figures, at the youth of their preserver.
"Hold your heads fully up," Tippoo went on, for Dick and his companion, after making a deep salaam, had stood with bent heads and with eyes fixed upon the ground.
Then two of the attendants, girls of thirteen or fourteen years old, came forward from behind the others, each bearing a casket.
"These are presented to you, with my permission, by the ladies whose lives you saved," Tippoo said; "and should you at any time have a favour to ask, or even should you fall under my displeasure, you can rely upon their good offices in your behalf." There was another low murmur from the other end of the hall.

Then Tippoo clapped his hands, and the women moved out, as noiselessly as they had entered.
"You can retire now," Tippoo said, as he moved towards the door into the other room.