Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Henderson gives job to newly arrived oblivious, Fact2: gang is murdering both men and animals of caravans, Fact3: Lewis is rescued by pet mongoose forcing cult 's high priest to release him, Fact4: brother receives permission to search for him, Fact5: Gopali Das however now haunted by brother 's death at own hands frees Lewis
Output (English): Captain Harry Lewis of the British East India Company, is investigating why over 2000 natives are missing, but encounters a deaf ear from his superior, Colonel Henderson, who is more concerned with the local English merchants caravans which are disappearing without a trace. To appease them, Henderson agrees to appoint a man to investigate, and Lewis believes it will be him. However, he is sorely disappointed when Henderson gives the job to the newly arrived, oblivious Captain ConnaughtSmith, the son of an old friend of Hendersons. Lewis believes a gang is murdering both the men and animals of the caravans and then burying the bodies, and suspects that the culprits have secret informants among the merchants of the city. He presents ConnaughtSmith with his evidence and his theories, but is dismissed. He is also later caught by the Thugees and sentenced to die by the bite of a cobra, but is rescued by a pet mongoose, forcing the cults high priest to release him. However, ConnaughtSmith remains antagonistic and derisive towards Lewis, who eventually resigns his commission in frustration to investigate on his own. Ram Das, Lewis houseboy, believes he has seen his brother, Gopali, who disappeared some years ago, and receives permission to search for him. Lewis later learns that Ram Das has been captured by the Thugs when his severed hand is tossed through the window of his bungalow; soon after, the Thugs compel Gopali Das, a new initiate of the cult, to kill his brother. Meanwhile, the merchants decide to band together and create a supercaravan whose size, as they believe, will discourage the bandits. The hidebound Captain ConnaughtSmith leads the caravan and foolishly allows the stranglers in the guise of travellers to join them. That night, the Thugs strike with their usual success, and all caravan members, ConnaughtSmith included, end up slain and buried. Lewis and Lt. Silver, a cult member, investigate the caravans disappearance. Lewis sees the scar that marks Silver as a Thuggee follower of Kali and shoots him in selfdefence. Lewis then discovers the buried bodies and returns to the cults secret temple, where he is caught and set to die on a burning pyre. Gopali Das, however, now haunted by his brothers death at his own hands, frees Lewis, who casts the high priest onto the pyre instead, and the two men escape in the ensuing tumult. Lewis and Gopali race to meet Henderson, who is dining with Patel Shari, the merchants local representative and secretly a member and informer of the Thugee cult. Gopali identifies Patels chief servant as a Thug; Patel kills his follower to hold his tongue, but exposes himself with this action. Following this, Lewis resignation is revoked, and he receives a promotion from Henderson for his help in exposing the Thuggee cult. The film ends with a narrative display detailing that the Thugee cult was subsequently wiped out by the British, and a quotation by Major General William Sleeman: If we have done nothing else for India, we have done this one good thing.