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Lalkamal sat together, and the latter, being apprehensive of injury, took out the remaining hornet and killed it, and the Rakkhashi immediately fell down dead.
On being freed from this pest Neelkamal and Lalkamal's father regained his health and energies, and learning where his sons were, sent for them. They came, and their own kingdom and that of their father-in-law, who had recently died, was annexed to their father's, and once more in their paternal house, they lived happily with their wives and children, much to the delight of the old king.
