The latter said not a word, took her quietly home in the evening, and cut her throat from ear to ear.

The Khan, on hearing of the murder next day, made no remonstrance, nor was the offender punished.

He was an Afghan.
The second case is even more disgraceful.

One of the Khan's own suite, a well-known libertine and drunkard, contracted an alliance with a young girl of eighteen.

He had endeavoured in vain to marry her younger sister, almost a child, and so beautiful that she was known for many miles round the city as the "Pearl of Kelat." Six weeks after marriage this ruffian, in a fit of drunken frenzy caused by jealousy, almost decapitated his wife with a tulwar, and afterwards mutilated her body past recognition.