A little while previously to the capture of Feringhea's family, the British officer had captured Feringhea's foster-brother, leader of a gang of ten, and had tried the eleven and condemned them to be hanged.

Feringhea's captured family arrived at the jail the day before the execution was to take place.

The foster-brother, Jhurhoo, entreated to be allowed to see the aged mother and the others.

The prayer was granted, and this is what took place--it is the British officer who speaks: "In the morning, just before going to the scaffold, the interview took place before me.

He fell at the old woman's feet and begged that she would relieve him from the obligations of the milk with which she had nourished him from infancy, as he was about to die before he could fulfill any of them.