Page:The Slave Girl of Agra.djvu/70

 the land. Kings came to lay offerings at his feet; and when he died he became a star, and ever shines in the sky—The Constant and True."

"It is a sweet story, Noren," said Hemlata after a long silence, "and I will ever think of it whenever I look on that bright North Star, even when I am far away at Debipur."

"It is a sweet story, Hemlata, and has a sweet moral. Watch that star nightly; be constant and true, and to Debipur thou needst never go."