1 MURDER OF JEWALLA SING, ETC. 67
2 with his six thousand Gorechars drawn out as if for resistance ;
3 but on the Maharajh making* his appearance in person, the
4 Mooktear gave up all thought of resistance, and went forward
5 to meet his angry master. He was then prevailed on to
6 accompany the Maharajh and his attendants to Lahore, and
7 on his arrival there, he was immediately heavily fettered and
8 thrown into a deep dungeon, without being allowed an inter-
9 view with the Maharajh or an opportunity of exculpating him-
10 self. Shere Sing relenting, would have given his old servant
11 a hearing, but Rajah Dehan Sing took care to prevent this, and
12 to widen the breach between them. Thus the unfortunate
13 Jewalla Sing was kept fettered in his dungeon, the only food
14 he was allowed being a daily ration of half a seer of flour,
15 kneaded with on equal quantity of salt ! He was likewise
16 whipped every day, and had hot irons applied to the
17 soles of his feet. To this cruel usage he was subjected for a
18 month, but as he did not sink under it in that time; Dehan Sing
19 obtained an order for his removal to the fort of Shaikoopur for
20 a period of six months, as the minister said, by way of punish-
21 ment. Hither he was accordingly sent, without having an
22 interview with his master, and in about ten days after his arrival
23 he died under the barbarous treatment which he experienced at
24 the hands of his jailors, the tools of Rajah Dehan Sing. Some
25 time afterwards Shere Sing was informed that he had died a
26 natural death, and so no more was said or thought of the hapless
27 Jewalla Sing.
28 When the fort of Lahore fell into the hands of Shere
29 Sing, Rajah Goolaub Sing made it one of the conditions of
30 surrender, that the person and property of the Ranee Chund
31 Kour should be respected, and that to maintain her in suitable
32 dignity, a jaghire of nine lakhs of rupees should be allowed
33 to her. To these terms Shere Sing, at the persuasion of his
34 minister, Dehan Sing, gave his consent, and as already men-
35 tioned, the jaghire assigned to Chund Kour was that of