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 and began to calculate. After a while, he threw away the paper from his hand and became sad. "What is the result of your calculation?" inquired Dalani anxiously.

"What I see is very strange. You should not hear it," answered Mir Kasim with a melancholy voice.

The Nawab immediately came out, and calling the Mir Munshi* before him, said, "Issue orders to a Hindu officer, at Murshidabad, to send here Chandra Shekhar, a learned Brahmin, who taught me astrology. He lives at Bedagram, a place very close to Murshidabad. He should be summoned here to calculate where would Dalani Begum be, at the time of, and after, the war with the English, if it breaks out at all."

The Mir Munshi, as ordered, sent for Chandra Shekhar, at Murshidabad.