human
Glad to see you, Gerrard. Curious you should have come upon me just here. Wasn't it you who got into trouble with Speathley by saying that poor Nisbet and Cowper ought to be buried in the city instead of in Ratan Singh's tomb?
gpt
Yes, but I don't know how you heard of it.
human
Other people have heard of it as well. You have impressed the sensitive imagination of no less a person than the Governor-General, my dear fellow. Your suggestion got through to him somehow--some one who was there writing to some one else, I suppose--and he has sent peremptory orders for it to be carried out. Ever since the news arrived, the pet aide-de-camp has been labouring to convince Speathley that he originated the idea himself, and was only angry with you because you took the words out of his mouth, and he is just coming to believe it.
gpt
Very wise, in the circumstances.
human
Uncommonly so. Well, what do you think of this place for the grave? It is inside the palace enclosure, and yet quite separated from the palace itself. Even if we set up a new Rajah, I suppose we shall keep a garrison in the town, and a sentry can always be mounted here. No future Resident would care to live so close to the palace after what has happened, I should say.
gpt
I suppose you can't do better, agreed Gerrard reluctantly, looking at the overgrown wilderness which represented his carefully kept garden.
human
Yes, make a cemetery of the place by all means, Rawson. It looks as if it had a curse on it.
gpt
What an uncommon romantic fellow you are! said Rawson good-humouredly.
human
This was my chief reason for choosing the spot. Look here!