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piracy but was rather the victim of it His own high sense of duty with which he approached the task of administration proved the cause of his ruin He was determined to bring the prince back to the right path and he worked for the realisation of this object with an unflinching faith and untiring zeal which always guide those who believe themselves engaged in a just and righteous cause In so doing, he incurred the enmity of those whose interest lay in seeing the prince persist in his old course of extravagance and dissipation. To proceed, his enemies got the upper hand in the court and poisoned the ears of the Raja against him by inventing an imag.nary story of an imaginary plot. The credulous prince-- and we know that he was so on the authority of no less a person than Jahangir himselfbelieved implicitly in all the nonsense which the enemies of Karam Chand had been pleased to tell him. He at once determined to arrest Karam Chand and to put him to death. The friends of the minister had already reported to him all that had been talked of or said about him in the court As soon as he learnt the decision of the prince, he fled from Bikanar and invoked the protection of Akbar which was generously given. The Emperor treated the noble refugee with every courtesy and kindness and conferred on him a position of honour in the cougt. Karam Chand rose higher and higher every day in the esteem of Akbar, and soon acquired great influence over him.
