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of his prostrate enemy, and, darting a look of fierce 
defiance at the intruders, pointed with a grim smile 
at the reeking corpse over which he was standing in 
ferocious triumph. The guards rushed forward to 
avenge the death of their chief, and the Rahtore, m 
the paroxysm of desperation, soon laid three of them 
dead at his feet. His weapon was raised to immolate 
another victim, when he received a javelin in the 
temple and fell dead. 
Thus ended this sanguinary feud, of which many 
instances are recorded equally terrible in the annals of 
Rajpoot warfare.* 
* They who are acquainted with the history of this extraordi- 
nary race will not be surprised at the details of this sad narrative. 
