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their patron to Mehrab Khan in private. About this time Dad Ma- 



hommed Umarzye Ghilzye came into notice ; he was 

 Dad Mahommed. 



one of the peshkidmats of Mehrab Khan, and kept 



the seal with which the daily order for rations was sealed. This man, 

 in the time of Mahmood, was dog- keeper to the young Mehrab, but 

 getting into a scrape about an intrigue with one of nurse Beebo's 

 slave girls, fled, and took service with Hajee Barat. He was once 

 employed in collecting the revenue of Dajal. Mulla Fakeer Mahom- 

 med, a khanahzady was the manager of Kalat, and kept the dafturs ; 

 Darogah Gul Mahommed and Shahghassee were of no note. 



Akhund Futteh Mahommed still continued to serve faithfully ; 

 although superceded and surrounded by enemies, the foremost of 

 which was the Khan's mother. For fear of her, it is said, the wukeel 

 was often afraid to go to his house at night, and slept by the Khan. 



Although Mulla Abdul Kadir used to interfere in the wukeel's 



province, he always desisted when complaints were 

 Conspiracy. . . . __, . . . .. 



made to the Khan. At last the following enemies 



of the wukeel conspired together and determined to attempt his ruin : 



they were Mullah Abdul Kadir, Meer Eltaz, Meerulla Khan Raisanee, 



and some Ghulams. 



Meer Mubarick, the son of Mullah Futteh Mahommed, and Meer 

 Kadir Bakhsh Zahree, chief of Jhalawan, his son-in-law, were both 

 (unknown to each other) enamoured of one of Mullah Futteh Mahom- 

 med's slave girls. 



The conclave therefore first made a disclosure to each party of the 

 other's successful amour, and thus succeeded in making them deadly 

 enemies. At last in the month of Ramzan, when Meer Mubarick was 



_ . „ ,, _■_ performing ablution in his own room, Kadir Bukhsh 



Death of Meer Mu- r ° ' 



barick. stole upon him, and killed him : and then fled to 



Bibee Lai Baiee Eltazye, widow of Meer Mahmood Khan, (his own 



mother being an Eltazye,) where he remained in concealment three 



days. These same chiefs, after Meer Mubarick's death, importuned 



the Khan to kill Kadir Bukhsh, to avenge the blood of Meer Mubarick. 



Their object was to involve Meer Futteh Mahommed, in a bloody feud 



with the Zahrees, and to deprive the Akhund of the powerful influence 



_' , ._ ,. of such a son-in-law. Meer Kadir Bukhsh was 

 Death of Kadir 



Bukhsh. accordingly killed, in the Meeree of Gundava, while 



