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Rh "Very well," said Surja. "Would you like to have the Thakur Jamai? Say so, and Kamal will arrange it."

"Then I will see," said Hira; "but there is already in the house a husband suited to my mind."

"Who is it?" asked Surja.

"Death," was Hira's reply.