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 the tortures of hell, if you undergo a penance for your sins.

Shaibalini. What form of penance can save me from the tortures of the hell that is within me?

Chandra Shekhar. What do you mean?

Shaibalini. These hills are visited by divine beings; I cannot say what mysterious change they have brought in me—I dream hell all day and night.

Chandra Shekhar noticed that Shaibalini's eyes were fixed upon some object in the direction of the entrance to the cave—it seemed, she was looking at it very closely. He saw that her already pale face was growing paler and her eyes were getting dilated more and more every moment—she began to take hurried and heavy breaths, and every hair of her body stood on its end, as she began to shiver, perhaps, with fear.

Chandra Shekhar asked, "What is it, you are looking at, so minutely?"

Shaibalini made no answer—she was staring, as before. Chandra Shekhar again asked,

"What makes you tremble with fear?"

Shaibalini kept mute like a statue. Chandra Shekhar was surprised—he looked Shaibalini in