Chapter 2 Summary

The judge sends the cook to the police station the next day to report the crime. The police grilled him, stating that it was usually the servants who staged or promoted robberies since they were so desperate. The following day, the police went to Cho Oyu to ask more questions and to see Cho Oyu from the inside, since it was such an elaborate building but was now starting to decay.

The house was built by a Scotsman, whose passion for India made him hire hundreds of workers to build his home, who carried boulders from the riverbed up to the chosen site. The police searched around the house and were unimpressed by it, since it was in such disrepair. While searching the cook's hut, Sai noticed a picture of Biju, the cook's only child, who now worked in America. The cook beamed...