Storia do Mogor 265.19.6

265.19.6

When all this had been carried out, the governor sent for the young man, and showed him the whole stock of jewellery, telling him to pick out those articles that were his. As he knew them all, he forthwith pointed them out. The governor was convinced that the youth spoke the truth, for he never touched any of the other jewels, claiming solely those he had been deprived of by the said Hindu clerk. When certified of this fact, the governor returned to each man his jewels, and took back his security money, paying to them the promised interest. But the young man's jewels he kept back. Finally he sent for the Hindu clerk, and asked him whose jewels these were, and how he had obtained possession of them. The Hindu was terrified, and could give no sufficient account of them. Then the youth entered, throwing the clerk into still greater confusion, and, apprehensive of some severe punishment, he confessed the truth. Thus did the young man recover his jewels, and the governor sent to inform the Goa law-court that, whenever it found itself in a difficulty about the decision of any case, they should make it over to him, and he would willingly dispose of it.