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 "Hav'nt you seen him before, Prince?" asked Osman after seeing the man.

"No," replied the Prince.

"He is one of your Brahmins, Sir," said Osman. "His conversation is quite elegant. I saw him at Garmandaran."

The Prince grew anxious. He was at Garmandaran? Couldn't he then tell anything of Tilottama?

"What's his name, Sir,?" asked he in agitation.

Osman thought for a while, and said, "His name is rather hard to tell; it can't be so easily recalled to mind, Ganapat? No, Ganapati?—Gajapat? No, Gajapati? What more?"

"Gajapati?—It's not a Bengali name; yet I see the man is a native of this country."

"Right! He is a Bengali; a Bhattacharjya. He has got some title. Elem—elem—what next?"

"O no, Sir, Bengali titles never take in the word elem. The Bengali for elem is vidya . He might be a Vidyabhusan or a Vidyabagish."

"Yes, yes, vidya and something more. Stay—what do they call an elephant in Bengali?"

"Hasti."

"What more?"

"Kari, danti, varana, naga, gaja—"

"Ah! here it is; his name is Gajapati Vidyadiggaja."

"Viddyadiggaja! a rare title as I live! Nothing could match the title except the name.  I feel curious to talk with the man."

Osman Khan had heard a wee bit of Gajapati's conversation; and saw no harm to any talk the Prince might hold with him.