But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.' "'It is nothing against the fort,' said he.

'We only ask you to do that which your countrymen come to this land for.

We ask you to be rich.

If you will be one of us this night, we will swear to you upon the naked knife, and by the threefold oath which no Sikh was ever known to break, that you shall have your fair share of the loot.

A quarter of the treasure shall be yours.