Indian folklore / Ram Satya Mukharji.

  • Mukharji, Ram Satya.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Indian folklore / Ram Satya Mukharji. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    day broke, he was quite conscious again. Bitter repentance now arose in his mind, and to his utter dismay, he found that he was a lost man—lost in this life, as well as in the life to come. His life hang heavily on him, and to get rid of it, he drank the content of the phial labelled poison. And no sooner did he take it than he dropped down dead on the cold stone floor of the cell, before the turnkey had come to unlock the doors. The King heard from the girl, the details of the convict’s action, and was glad that his plan had succeeded well.