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 242 THE EMPEKOB, HUMAYUN ninth year (Jan. 24, 1556). His end was of a piece with his character. If there was a possibility of falling, Humayun was not the man to miss it. He tumbled through life, and he tumbled out of it. At his tomb, three centuries later, the last of the Moghul emperors, the feeble and aged Shah Alam, surrendered to Hodson of Hodson 's Horse, and the old man's savage and worth- less sons paid the penalty of their treachery. It was perhaps fitting that the grave of the humane and chiv- alrous son of Babar should be the silent witness of a righteous vengeance.