INTRODUCTION not marry her because she lhad already become the wife, tlhough nominally of another man. The King finds that the time has arrived when he could be put to the test of his word; whether the promise of giving his life to the lady was real and carnest and whether it consisted of, mere wurds, as innost of such promises really arc, lle proves true to his word and gives up his life; and secing this, the Commander-in-Chief, the nominal husband of the deceased lady, also puts his word to the real practical test. He has often stated that he would be willing to give his lise to his King and when the time arrives he was true to his word and gave up his life for his King. The Priest and the Adviser observing all this, and thinking their actions to be the original cause of so much misery and feeling unbearable the loss of their beloved King, put an end to their lives. Thus ends the tragic story, although by some supernatural influence they all are restored to life. But they are all duly judged and rewarded in heaven as their motives were good and as they had sacrificed their lives in a good and virtuous cause. Thus "Virtue " triumphs in the end. 9. If the priest and the adviser too had been quite as .firm as the King and the Commander-in-Chief, ready to bear the consequences of truth, even in its bitterest ends,
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