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Whilst I was listening to the case for the prosecution, the Deputy Commissioner of Police came into the Court and gave me some information which furnished a clue to the whole story.
As I was then in England I was ~1ble to give him what he considered a good deal of help in the prosecution of his wish, besides obtaining subscribers in India.
-Governor of Bengal, sent for me to his official residence, and told me he was keeping the permanent appointment of the Presidency Magistrate vacant in the hope I would accept it.
Gifted with great perspicacity, sound common-sense, and an unsurpassed knowledge of men, he was said by some to be rather hard and uncompromising to those serving under him, but I found him always kind, courteous and not at all difficult to please.
vflovernor saw a report of the case, and the Covernme nt Prosecutor was directed t o appear for the men who by this time had left the ship and had taken refuge with the Harbour-ms ..
" Do they hope from you or do they fear you or do they look for rain " In your area, having come for pasturage from the regions ?" And another said : " People press at his door ; "For the way to palatable water is crowded.
There• upon he got up, praised God and eulogized him and then he said : Verily, Yazid the son of Mu'fiwiya is a hope we trust in, and an end of a life's duration with regard to which you are secure.