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So they deserted the bazaars andspectacle of all: the king as dead was not dead,

but alive!

He appeared before thes For Ramabai, no mean politician,

wished to impress upon the volatile populace the villainy of Uain wholly, without reservation, the syest staff a politician may lean upon Like a

brave and honest hts all hope of power

The king ht be old, senile, decrepit, but he was none the less the

king If he had ht, there were other

h he was to

realize in these lucid intervals that Ra all his people,

was loyalest

So, in the throne rooave the power to Ramabai to act in

his stead till he had fully recovered from his terrible hardships

More than this, he declared that Pundita, the wife of Ramabai, should

ultimately rule; for of a truth the principality was lawfully hers He

would al he

would have to destroy the previous will he had given to Colonel Hare,

his friend

"Forgive me, my friend," he said "I acted unwisely in your case But

I was angry with my people for their cowardice"

"Your Majesty," replied the colonel, "the fault lay primarily with me