The purchaser offered a fair price, seller demanded double.

The crowd looked on, and a good deal of abuse of the female relations on both sides took place.

At last a sepoy of the governor came up, armed to the teeth, and called out to the man, in a very imperious tone, to let go his hold of the cane.

He refused, saying that 'when people came to the fair to sell, they should be made to sell at reasonable prices, or be turned out'.

'I', said Jangbar Khan, 'thought the man right, and told the sepoy that, if he took the part of this woman, we should take that of the other, and see fair play.