1 THE MURDER OF PESHORA SING. 1 U)
2 all this, however, Chuttur Sing- replied only by reiterated as-
3 surances that he might dismiss his apprehensions, for that
4 no manner of harm was intended him. Thus then he was
5 conveyed into the fort of Attock, where he was conducted to
6 a low tower called the Kollboorj in close proximity to the In-
7 dus, which is extremely deep at this place. In a lower room
8 of this tower which had a doorway opening immediately on
9 the river, the prince was lodged. During the night he was
10 visited by the treacherous chiefs, who placed six sentries over
11 him, and before morning he had been strangled and afterwards
12 sunk in the deep water of the Indus. The next day the two
13 chiefs returned to their camp at Punja Sahib, whence they in
14 a few days afterwards marched on different routes. Futteh
15 Khan took his troops towards Kalabagh and Dera Ismael
16 Khan, and Chuttur Sing returned into the hill country. They
17 both dreaded the consequences of what they had done, when
18 it should come to the knowledge of the Khalsa ; and Chuttur
19 Sing acknowledged his fears in the act of sending his family
20 across the hills to Kistowar, where they might dwell under
21 the protection of his patron, Rajah Goolaub Sing, while he
22 himself hastened by another route to a small village near the
23 fort of Reharsee beyond Jummoo.
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