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Dharan was having sound sleep in the pin-drop silence of the night and near the shore. Suvaden was asleep just near him. Lakshmi kept awake. By midnight he awoke Suvadan. She had decided to kill him. Suvadan also was with her in this evil plot. That was the reason why he engaged Dharan in gossiping.
Lakshmi and Suvadan prepared a knot of rope and put it round the neck of Dharan. Laskshmi's delicate hand touched the body of Dharan, though shetried to avoid it. Dharan's sleep was disturbed. He could see the things, as he: opened the eyes a bit. He kept on lying helplessley. The knot of rope was quite set now. Suvadan pulled the rope. Dharan took out his tongue, as it were. He managed to do it. The signs of death were visible.
Lakshmi told : ‘Throw away this calamity into the ocean immediately. Let: this thorn be cut off for ever.'
Suvadan made a sign of his approval.
