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 eat anything, inspite of the entreaties of the servant. She said to him, "I am a Brahmin's daughter; why should I take food from your hands?"

The servant left and reported to his masters what Shaibalini had said.

"Is there no Brahmin in any of the boats?" inquired Amyatt of the servant.

"There is one Brahmin among the Sepoys and another among the prisoners," replied the man.

"If there is rice with any one of them, go and ask him to give some to the woman," said Amyatt in good grace.

The servant, thereupon, took Shaibalini to the Hindu Sepoy. But he had nothing to give her to eat. The servant, therefore, brought Shaibalini to the boat, in which the Brahmin prisoner was kept. The prisoner was none but Pratap Roy himself.

Pratap was alone in a small boat. Both at its front and back, there were sentinels on watch. There was no light within the boat.

The servant called out the prisoner, and said, "Have you any rice left with you?"

"What will you do with it?" inquired Pratap.