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There was not much water in that will. Both sat on a stone in the well and began to talk with each other. The tilaksymbol on the forehead of Malaya had disappeared somehow. Malaya and Mahabal informed ench other as to what they had undergone till that day.
The king came to klow in the morning that the young prisoner who had been arrested on the previous day had escaped from the prison. King Kandarp set out with his attendants to search for Malaya. He was quite sure that that lady had changed herself into the form of a man and had thereafter escaped. The king was moving about here and there with his attendants.
When he reached near the well, he heard the voices of the conversation between two persons. The king bent low and looked into the well. Malaya, the principal queen of his dreams, was talking with some man,
