1 hate each oilier in the most aerimohiouS maimer. Sinlar Ajeet
2 Sing and his uncle Lena Sing (descended from the family of the
3 Scindawalla, and related to Buiyeet Sing) belonged to the part)
4 of the ranee, u lio had fought against Sheer Sing and Dhyan
5 Sing; but they knew how to insinuate themselves into the con
6 (Science of both to such a degree that, without the knowledge of
7 either, they destroyed both the maharajah and his wuueor.
8 They conspired with Sheer Sing to murder Dhyan Sing, but at
9 the same time they also intrigued with Dhyan Sing to murder
10 Sheer Sing. Both king and minister were well acquainted with
11 their preparations for war, and knew also that the Scindawallas
12 had provided themselves with gunpowder, bullets and soldiers.
13 Sheer Sing was even repeatedly cautioned by his friends to be on
14 Ids guard, to which advice however he paid no attention, and
15 in an immovable manner allowed them to concoct their schemes.
16 Each one believed that The stroke was appointed for his adversary,
17 unci, finally, it fell upon both. True is the proverb: “He
18 Who digs a pit for another, falls in himself;" for Ajeet Sing as
19 well as Lena Sing had laboured for their own ruin.
20 Sheer Sing used to review Ins troops every day. On such an
21 occasion, being in the royal garden (Shahbelore)’for the purpose
22 of mustering the Seindawalla's troops, and sitting before the
23 window of a small room, to look at. the soldiers, Ajeet Sing.
24 approached him and exhibited a loaded doublebamHed fowling-
25 piece, as a uazerana (present), and at the moment Sheer Sing
26 was stretching out his hand to receive it, he was shot with that
27 gun on the spot. Ajeet Sing's troops, arrayed before the window',
28 gave a volley of musket shots through the window, to kill the
29 men surrounding Sheer Sing, and penetrated into the room to
30 co< off bis head. I was by accident not farther than ten steps
31 from the place where the horrid crime was committed, and five
32 minutes before his atrocious murder I had spoken to him in the
33 garden under a tree, where he ordered me to remain until his
34 return. The subject of our interview was a gunpowder-mill
35 with machinery, which Dhyan Sing had ordered me to make.
36 Sheer Sing had inspected that establishment four days pro