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 began to tremble with fear. She saw, in the moonlight, on the top of the boat, an Englishman, lying on a little sofa, in a half reclining state. The radiant beams of the moon had fallen upon his face. Shaibalini shrieked out when she found that the man on the sofa was no other than Lawrence Foster himself!

Lawrence Foster was also gazing at her, as she was swimming away, and recognised that it was Shaibalini. He forthwith cried out, "Seize, ho, seize my lady there!" Foster himself was sick and bed rid—he had not the power to get up.

At Foster's cry, four or five men jumped into the river to seize ''Shaibalini. Pratap'' was at that time far ahead of them. They cried out to him, "Seize that woman—Foster Sahib will reward you."222222222222222 At this, Pratap said within himself, "I myself once gave Foster some reward, and I have a mind to reward him again." He, however, shouted to the men, "I will seize her—you better go back."

The men relied on Pratap's words, and turned back. Foster could not recognise that the man in advance was Pratap himself. Even then Foster's brain was not thoroughly restored.